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Please Pass the Tissue. We're Watching 'The Odd Life of Timothy Green'

This film can be accused of bending everything to realize its purpose and as such it seems faulty, but those willing to see beyond its manipulation might be surprised to find in it a beautiful allegory for the difficulties of parenting.

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'The Odd Life of Timothy Green': Too Odd and Not Odd Enough

Jim and Carol's story is at once mundane and creepy-cute, wound up around the core fact of the child Timothy, who arrives following a thunderstorm out of their garden

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