Simon Birch
1998
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Director: Mark Steven Johnson
Cast: Ian Michael Smith, Joseph Mazzello, Ashley Judd, Oliver Platt
A touching but manipulative tearjerker about two young boys, the smaller one of who believes that God has a special plan for him. As with Cider House Rules, only about 10% of John Irving's marvellous novel A Prayer for Owen Meany has ended up on the screen.
