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Jim Green : Have the day you have! Sign In. Play trailer Comedy Drama Family. Director Peter Hedges. Peter Hedges screenplay Ahmet Zappa story. Top credits Director Peter Hedges. See more at IMDbPro. Trailer Trailer 1. Clip The Odd Life of Timothy Green.

Promo Celebrate Photos Top cast Edit. David Morse James Green, Sr. Lin-Manuel Miranda Reggie as Reggie. Dianne Wiest Ms. Bernice Crudstaff as Ms. Bernice Crudstaff. Common Coach Cal as Coach Cal. Peter Hedges.

More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. After receiving bad news from a fertility doctor, Cindy and Jim Green try to bury their dreams of having a child by writing out all the great traits their child would have and putting them in a box in the garden. During a freak storm in the middle of the night, they awake to find a boy named Timothy, with leaves growing from his ankles, standing in their kitchen calling them mom and dad.

Cindy and Jim are thrown into the midst of parenthood and over the coming months, Timothy will teach them more than they could have imagined about being parents and raising a child, no matter how he comes into their lives. He's a force of nature. Comedy Drama Family Fantasy. Rated PG for mild thematic elements and brief language.

Did you know Edit. Trivia Filmed in the same house as Halloween II Goofs When Timothy kicks Joni in the face, a leaf can be seen floating away in the pool, which means he lost one. Quotes Jim Green : Have a great day! Connections Featured in Maltin on Movies: Sparkle Hill as Mildred Hill and Patty S. She sees his leaves, and Timothy reflexively kicks out, and lands a kick to her nose. She is angry and swims off. Later, she wants him to see something. The two become friends, and bike, climb, hike, and explore together.

Cindy is worried that he is spending too much time with this girl. The 2 kids lay down in the sun, and when he pulls down his sock, a leaf falls off. It has started to turn colors.

Uncle Bub M. Emmet Walsh is in the hospital; the family rushes to his bedside. They all visit, and then he asks to spend some 1-on-1 time with Timothy. The two talk and laugh, and Cindy and Jim smile. Jim signs Timothy up for soccer. As they practice, the parents ask him about the girl he spends so much time with.

He tells them her name is Joni Odeya Rush. Jim tells Timothy he had a crush on a girl when he was his age…and he married her. At work, Franklin calls Jim in; the layoffs are happening, and Jim has to let everyone go. It costs too much to keep making pencils, and the entire plant may close.

Timothy asks if they can come up with an idea for a new kind of pencil, one that might be easier to manufacture. Not wanting to disappoint their son, Jim and Cindy throw themselves into the project, and make a pencil that is almost entirely made of leaves.

Cranky Ms. Crudstaff is unimpressed and makes small talk. She shows Timothy her newly commissioned portrait for the museum and explains that it was at great expense. Timothy tells her he would have done it for free. So, she challenges him, and he sketches her beautifully and accurately. A bit too accurate, as he adds her chin hair, and she is insulted. Crudstaff after being so tolerant all these years, and she is fired. Franklin gets on the phone and shares the idea. It might save their jobs and the plant.

Coach Cal refuses to let Timothy play. Timothy and Joni spend more time together, and Cindy is worried. Joni leads her into the woods…and shows her this beautiful space they have made, with handmade vines and mobiles and tapestries. Cindy realizes she was wrong. Brenda is bragging how talented her kids are, and Cindy finally adds that Timothy is musical.

At the end, Brenda announces Timothy for the encore. He says sure, but Cindy and Jim look horrified. Timothy picks up a block and stick and bangs out a rhythm on it. No one knows what he is doing. Then Cindy jumps up and joins, and the 3 of them jam.

When they go home, they are happy that they had fun, and think their son rocks. When they tuck him in, he pulls another leaf from his ankle; this one is brown. He tells Timothy not to move from that spot, and just stand still.

The teams are tied, Jim tells him to run, and go and play. Joni rides up on her bike, holding a big piece of cardboard. He smiles, and then plays. He is doing fantastic, and kicks an amazing goal as the time runs out…and scores for the other team. Franklin and the other parents are shocked that they lost. They go to the soccer team dinner in the school, and Timothy sees Joni and they leave together.

Jim and Cindy go to spy. They see the two talk, hug, and Joni leaves, looking sad. They ask what happened, and he tells them that he had to let her go. When he gets home, he takes off his soccer gear and more leaves fall. There is a town meeting, and everyone is agitated, hearing the closing rumors. The owner says that they were going to close, but with the new pencil invented by Franklin, the plant can stay open and they all keep their jobs.

Timothy speaks up, that Franklin is stealing credit for the pencil, and that Cindy and Jim invented it. He shows them to the crowd. Crudstaff explains that if he can have leaves on his ankle, they can make a new pencil—get to work! It's a stormy night as they drive home, and Timothy tells them that they need to get inside.

They ask him what is wrong. When his leaves go, he goes, too. I lose my leaves and move on. They look, and Timothy is gone. They go outside in the pouring rain, and dig in the garden; they find the box. Inside is a letter.