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Simon Birch

1998, Movie, PG, 110 mins

Simon Birch: Review

While it's true that interesting books rarely make interesting movies, they can, in the right hands, be dumbed down into perfectly good family entertainment. Writer-director Mark Steven Johnson has just those hands: He's taken John Irving's beloved and deeply religious novel, A Prayer for Owen Meany, and turned it into a nicely played but wholly unadventurous film that's as spiritually edifying as Touched by an Angel. In the kind of idyllic New England town that only Pepperi... read more leave a comment

Simon Birch: Cast & Details

Year: 1998
Rated PG

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Cast
Ian Michael Smith: Simon Birch
Joseph Mazzello: Joe Wenteworth
Ashley Judd: Rebecca Wenteworth
Oliver Platt: Ben Goodrich
David Strathairn: Reverend Russell
Dana Ivey: Grandmother Wenteworth

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