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...expect 12-year-olds to be oppressed by ontological issues. You also don't expect them to be arrested in their physical development at about age five. But that's Simon Birch (Ian Michael Smith) for you: mascot, moral and intellectual nudge, best friend to Joe Wenteworth (Joseph Mazzello), who because of his illegitimate birth is a more conventional kind of outcast in their small New England town. Simon, whose tale was suggested by John Irving's A Prayer for Owen Meany, is convinced that a heroic destiny awaits him. How he attains that improbable yet inspirational end, through...
...humored mom. Her tolerance for the workaholic ways of her husband Tom (David Strathairn) is wearing thin, but she's laboring earnestly on the marriage. She is also an expert whitewater rafter, and has arranged a trip down a challenging, unnamed western river with Tom, their son Roarke (Joseph Mazzello) and the family dog (boy and dog are also estranged from Tom). The family that gets sprayed together stays together -- or so Gail hopes...
People have made a big fuss over the episode when Hopkins cries. This moving scene involves Lewis letting down his old boy guard to share a wrenching yet tender moment with Joy's son, Douglas (Joseph Mazzello). Hopkins delights as the naive and slightly ingenuous children's author. But Winger seems to do more of the work. And as Joy Gresham she has her work cut out for her. Her character is almost as stereotypical as Lewis' initial analysis makes her sound. She's brash, loud-mouthed, has feminist and other leftist leanings and simply will never be anything...
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