Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 114 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
The story
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.
- based on novel or book
- church
- school bus
- illegitimate son
- dwarfism
- death of best friend
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Ian Michael Smith
Simon Birch
Joseph Mazzello
Joe Wenteworth
Ashley Judd
Rebecca Wenteworth
Oliver Platt
Ben Goodrich
- David Strathairn — Reverend Russell
- Dana Ivey — Grandmother Wenteworth
- Beatrice Winde — Hilde Grove
- Jan Hooks — Miss Leavey
- Cecilley Carroll — Marjorie
- Sumela-Rose Keramidopulos — Ann
- Sam Morton — Stuart
- Jim Carrey — Adult Joe Wenteworth
- John Mazzello — Simon Wenteworth
- Holly Dennison — Mrs. Birch
- Peter MacNeill — Mr. Birch
- Directed
- Mark Steven Johnson
- Written
- Mark Steven Johnson
Production
- Rating
- 6.9 / 10 · 275 ratings
- Studio
- Hollywood Pictures, Caravan Pictures
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
