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starstarstarstar Barbara Shulgasser - SF Examiner
starstarstar Susan Stark - Detroit News
starstarstar Roger Ebert - Chicago Sun-Times
starstarstar Mark Burger - Winston-Salem Journal
starstarstar Margaret McGurk - Cincinnati Enquirer
starstarstar Joe Baltake - Sacramento Bee
starstarstar Thelma Adams - NY Post
starstarstar Mike Clark - USA Today
starstar Michael O’Sullivan - Washington Post
starstar Jeff Vice - Deseret News
starstar James Berardinelli - ReelViews
starstar Jack Mathews - Newsday
star Robert Horton - Film.com
star Shawn Levy - Portland Oregonian
star Stephen Holden - NY Times

So well made and so full of sweet emotion and ‘good’ values

- Barbara Shulgasser

The movie equivalent of a piece of stale angel food cake . . . a nearly flavorless mixture of air and sugar and more sugar and a texture so parched that a mouthful is almost impossible to swallow without risk of choking

- Stephen Holden

Simon Birch

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Ian Michael Smith plays tiny 12 year old Simon Birch, who believes that God has a special plan for him. Joseph Mazzello, Ashley Judd, Oliver Platt, David Strathairn, Dana Ivey, Jan Hooks, Beatrice Winde, Cecilley Carroll, Sumela Kay, Jim Carrey. Director: Mark Steven Johnson (1998, PG)

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