Compare And Contrast The Odd Life Of Jim Green

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This must arguably be the cringes movie in the world. This movie did have potential, but, more than half of the scenes just made me cringe and look away. I don't know who directed this, or what the budget was, but I can tell the budget was low and not much effort was put intoto this movie. The book was much better than the movie and I recommend the book rather than the movie with all my heart.

After receiving bad news from a fertility doctor, Cindy and Jim Green try to bury their dreams of having a child by writing out all the great traits their child would have and putting them in a box in the garden. During a freak storm in the middle of the night, they awake to find a boy named Timothy, with leaves growing from his ankles, standing in their kitchen calling them mom and dad. Cindy and Jim are thrown into the midst of parenthood and over the coming months, Timothy will teach them more about parenthood than they could have imagined.

There are many cliche characters in The Odd Life Of Timothy Green including the character Cindy Green, whose classic mother character draws people in and, therefore, makes the movie more successful. The husband of Cindy Green(Jim Green) portrays a Dad who had issues with his Dad and is slightly insecure.
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She just made me cringe in every of the scenes she was featured in. Her acting was trash and had no effort put in her role and the movie would have done better without her. The mother-Cindy Green did a much better job of acting and played her role well. Also, Mrs. Crudstaff and Uncle Bub did a decent job of acting and slightly tipped the movie in my favor. The plot of this movie is extremely ridiculous; a kid growing from a garden? Where does Disney get these ideas? Lastly, why I hate this movie so much is because of Timothy Green. His acting is the worst of its kind and his creepy and weird persona really ruined the movie for

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