Simon Birch

Simon Birch (1998)

Actors: Marc Shaiman (composer), Byron A. Martin (miscellaneous crew), Roger Birnbaum (producer), Jan Hooks (actress), Randy Kennedy (miscellaneous crew), William Flower (miscellaneous crew), David Strathairn (actor), Peter MacNeill (actor), Sean McCann (actor), Jim Carrey (actor), Ashley Judd (actress), Oliver Platt (actor), Ian Doig (miscellaneous crew), Nina Saxon (miscellaneous crew), Laurence Mark (producer),

Plot: Simon Birch tells the story of Joe and Simon's heart-warming journey of friendship. Simon Birch was born with a condition that makes him much smaller than all the other kids in town. Now, due to his condition, Simon thinks God made him this way for a reason and highly believes in God. Together, Joe and Simon go on a journey of trust and friendship to find the answers to many things. Their friendship is put to the test when some unfortunate events happen.

Keywords: 1950s, 1960s, accidental-death, actor-shares-first-name-with-character, argument, armadillo, arrogance, baby-jesus, bag, baseball
Genres: Comedy, Drama,
Taglines: Destiny has big plans for little Simon Birch.

Quotes:

Simon: I've been thinking.::Joe: Yeah?::Simon: Last year we were in the squirt league, and this year we're in the pewee.::Joe: So?::Simon: So what do they want us to do, play baseball or urinate? Anyway, I was just thinking.

Adult Joe Wenteworth: Time is a monster that cannot be reasoned with. It responds like a snail to our impatience, then it races like a gazelle when you can't catch a breath.

Simon: You're already a bastard. Might as well be an enlightened one.

Simon: I'm a miracle you know.::Joe: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Simon: She's so sexy that sometimes I forget she's someone's mother.::Joe: Well, what if I said the same thing about your mother?::Simon: I'd have you committed.

Simon: If God's made the church bake sale a priority, we're in a lot of trouble.

Simon: What I want to do and what I do are two separate things. If we all went around doing what we wanted all the time, there'd be chaos.

Simon: Your mother is so sexy, sometimes I forget she's someone's mother.::Joe: What if I said the same thing about your mother?::Simon: I'd have you committed.

Adult Joe Wenteworth: [voiceover] I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice, not because of his voice, or because he was the smallest person I ever knew, or even because he was the instrument of my mother's death, but because he is the reason I believe in God. What faith I have, I owe to Simon Birch, the boy I grew up with in Gravedown, Maine.

Joe: I have faith. I just need proof to back it up.