Simon Birch
Destiny has big plans for little Simon Birch.
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Production
Budget
$20 000 000
Box office
$18 253 415
Director
Actors
Ian Michael Smith, Joseph Mazzello, Ashley Judd, Oliver Platt, David Strathairn, Dana Ivey, Beatrice Winde, Jan Hooks, Cecilley Carroll, Sumela-Rose Keramidopulos
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Producer
Roger Birnbaum, Laurence Mark, John Baldecchi
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Short description
Simon Birch and Joe Wenteworth are boys who have a reputation for being oddballs. Joe never knew his father, and his mother, Rebecca, is keeping her lips sealed no matter how much he protests. Simon, meanwhile, is an 11-year-old dwarf whose outsize personality belies his small stature. Indeed, he often assails the local reverend with thorny theological questions and joins Joe on his quest to find his biological father.
What's left behind the scenes
- The film is based on John Irving's novel "A Prayer for Owen Meany" (1989).
- American writer John Irving believed that his novel "A Prayer for Owen Meany" could not be successfully adapted into a film and sold the film rights on the condition that its title be changed. The alternative title "Simon Birch" was suggested by the author himself.
- Sandra Bullock was considered for the role of Rebecca Wentworth.
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