Filmed on location mostly in Canada, ranging from Toronto to Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. Suggested by John Irving’s best-selling novel A Prayer for Owen Meany.
Eleven-year-old Smith is afflicted with Morquio’s syndrome, a rare genetic disorder that causes dwarfism. He also has a firm faith in God and a belief that he has been placed on Earth to do some great deed. Almost as a compensation for his small size, Simon is endowed with a profound intellect. Jim Carrey appears briefly as the adult Joe Wenteworth and narrator. The 'smallest delivery in the history of Gravestown Memorial Hospital,' he has grown into adolescence as a severely vertically challenged individual. Stars Ian Michael Smith (Simon Birch), Joseph Mazzello (Joe Wenteworth), Ashley Judd (Rebecca Wenteworth), Oliver Platt (Ben Goodrich), David Strathairn (Rev. With Joseph Mazzello, Ashley Judd, Oliver Platt, David Strathairn. A Hollywood Pictures film in association with Caravan Pictures. Simon Birch: Directed by Mark Steven Johnson. Simon helps Joe look for his father, while trying to figure out how he is supposed to become a hero.
However, when his first hit in a baseball game, a high foul ball, accidentally kills Joe’s mother, the destinies of the two boys become linked. Certain he is going to become a hero, he argues about faith with his Sunday school teacher and priest, and pals around with his best friend, Joe. Simon Birch (film) Simon Birch is the smallest baby ever born at Gravestown Memorial Hospital, and as he gets older, he remains small.
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