Joel Edgerton and Jennifer Garner star as a couple trying desperately to have a child. When science and sex fail to give them what they want, they reluctantly surrender to the idea that it simply wasn’t meant to be, but not before one last drunken night of wishing where they write down the characteristics they’d want their dream child to have, put them in a wooden box and bury the box in the garden. Before you can say, “Who told them this would work?” something magical happens in their life: the box of wishes they planted is transformed to the young boy they always wanted. After some initial slapstick running around, the Greens quickly accept the gift the world has given them. And if you want to enjoy The Odd Life of Timothy Green, you need to do the same. Along with asking audiences to believe in the magic of nature bringing a desperate couple’s dream to life, literally, the movie also asks – nay, demands – that you to leave your usual cinematic cynicism at the door.
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