The Odd Life of Timothy Green | |
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Directed by | Peter Hedges |
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Screenplay by | Peter Hedges |
Story by | Ahmet Zappa |
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Music by | Geoff Zanelli |
Cinematography | John Toll |
Edited by | Andrew Mondshein |
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Distributed by | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures |
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104 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $25 million |
Box office | $56 million |
The Odd Life of Timothy Green: Original Soundtrack | |
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Soundtrack album by Geoff Zanelli | |
Released | August 14, 2012 |
Recorded | 2012 |
Genre | Film score |
Length | 45:00 |
Label | Walt Disney |
The Odd Life of Timothy Green is a 2012 American fantasy comedy-drama film starring Jennifer Garner, Joel Edgerton, Dianne Wiest, CJ Adams, Rosemarie DeWitt, Ron Livingston, David Morse and Common, written and directed by Peter Hedges and produced by Walt Disney Pictures. Based on a concept by Ahmet Zappa, the film is about a magical pre-adolescent boy whose personality and naïveté have profound effects on the people in his town. The film was released theatrically on August 15, 2012. It received mixed reviews from critics, earned $55.3 million on a $25 million budget and had modest ticket sales in its debut weekend. It also received a Young Artist Award nomination for Best Performance in a Feature Film. The Odd Life of Timothy Green was released by Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment on Blu-ray and DVD on December 4, 2012.
The film is told from the perspective of Cindy (Jennifer Garner) and Jim Green (Joel Edgerton), as they explain their experience with Timothy (CJ Adams) in an effort to persuade an adoption agency to allow the couple to adopt a child.
Cindy, who works in the town's local museum, and Jim, who is employed at the town's historic pencil factory, reside in the drought-stricken town of Stanleyville, North Carolina, self-labeled as "the pencil capital of the world". The Greens are informed by doctors that they are unable to conceive. Distraught by the news, Jim convinces Cindy to dream up their ideal child and write the child's characteristics and life events on slips of notepad paper.