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Title: BARELY ENTERTAINING-MOSTLY IRRITATING
Review: Unfortunately, this film fails to make the fantastical notion of a pre-teen boy emerging from a backyard garden to teach two childless thirty-somethings all they need to know about qualifying as adoptive parents entertaining or enlightening. Never really develops either a sense of magic or invites our willingness to "suspend disbelief."The amazed parents are mostly irritating in their efforts to understand and protect this child as he interacts with his disciplined, highly motivated, over achieving cousins and their driven mother, his bullying school chums, a cold apparently "old maid" town matron, or a skeptical soccer coach. The movie exhibits a better touch in the subplot of the "budding" Timothy and a prospective candidate for his first crush. I never really understood how he managed to actually motivate any changes to his various antagonists.For the record I am generally not irritated by this type of movie and wanted Timothy's "odd life" to be so much more.
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