“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

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)