Although this movie is not much of a box office success, due to the heavy load of drama, sensitivity and all the mushy-mushy stuff, I still say it is nice to see things go well sometimes, makes you feel that the world is not that bad.

Walt Disney still brings a little magic into our lives trying to make you feel the world is not that much of a sad place. Peter Hedges the director and co-writer of the film did a nice job with this movie, which doesn't have lots of special effects but delivers the hallmark family fun that Disney is known for, Peter finds a way to draw your sensitivity out and make you develop an emotional attachment to the characters from the movies first scene of parents struggling to have a child to when a naked kid shows up and then all the way till the end.

The odd life of Timothy green is about a couple Cindy and Jim Green (Jennifer Garner and Joel Edgerton),who couldn't have children. The couple has done all they can to get pregnant but all to no avail, so they began to dream about what their child would be like, they wrote down all they wished he would be, achieve and become, placed it in a box and buried it in the backyard.

One stormy night young Timothy (CJ Adams) shows up on their doorstep and calls them mum and dad.

CJ Adams was exceptional in his task as Timothy Green, child actors seem to have a difficult role sometimes when they have to convince you, but CJ did a good job and I was impressed by his acting.

As Adams plays young Timothy who sees life differently; hey! He has leaves growing on his ankles, he likes to spread his hands in the sunlight, he is naïve and truthful to a fault.

The movie's story had some loops here and there, but it was fun to see how things planned to turn out, although some can boast that the movie was a little predictable but it was also lovable. I won't burst the kids from school to go see this movie, but if you do catch it on TV gather the family around for a fun time.

Cindy (Jennifer Garner) and Jim Green (Joel Edgerton) are looking to adopt and recounter their life with Timothy. Their doctor had just given up on their fertility. The couple is broke and at their lowest point. He works at the local Stanleyville pencil factory and she works at its museum. Jim refuses to give up. He lifts her spirit with the idea to write down all of their kid's characteristics and burying the pieces of paper in the garden. During the night, Timothy magically grows out of the garden.

There is nothing particularly wrong with the movie. It's cute. Garner is adorably lovely. Edgerton isn't really this character type but he's able to play against type. The kid is ahhh ... cute. This is sappy and I don't think there's anything wrong with that. The movie does lack tension. There isn't much danger in the story. By showing the ending first, it puts any danger or sadness to a minimal. This is probably a good G-rated movie for people with kids or adults who want kids. I don't know how much of this is appealing to the little ones. After all, this is more about the adults than Timothy.

This live-action Disney movie had been on TV a lot in the last couple of years, especially on Bank Holidays and at Christmas, it was not rated very well by critics, but the concept sounded fun, and I was willing to give it a chance, directed by Peter Hedges (Dan in Real Life). Basically Cindy (Jennifer Garner) and Jim Green (Joel Edgerton) are trying to persuade an adoption agency to allow them to adopt a child, so they tell their story of experience with Timothy (CJ Adams),seen in flashback. Cindy worked in the town's local museum, and Jim worked at the town's historic pencil factory, they live in the drought-stricken town of Stanleyville, North Carolina, self-labelled as "the pencil capital of the world". Doctors inform the Greens that they are unable to conceive a child, they are distraught, so together they write down their dreams for an ideal child, including characteristics and life events, on note paper, the couple place the notes inside a wooden box and bury it in the backyard of the garden. That night, there is a thunderstorm, suddenly a ten-year-old boy enters the house claiming that the Greens are his parents, they find that the box they buried has been smashed to pieces in a large hole. The boy is covered in mud, he says his name is Timothy, he is actually a culmination of all their wishes of what their child would be. The Greens also discover that Timothy has a startling feature: he has leaves growing on his legs, these can only be covered up by him wearing long tube socks. The next day, at a family picnic, Timothy is introduced to Cindy's pompous sister Brenda Best (Rosemarie DeWitt),Jim's estranged father James Green Sr. (David Morse); and Cindy's paternal aunt and uncle Mel (Lois Smith) and Bub (M. Emmet Walsh). The parents take Timothy to their friend and town botanist, Reggie (Lin-Manuel Miranda),where they learn that Timothy's leaves cannot be removed. Timothy begins to attend school, where he meets Joni Jerome (Odeya Rush),they begin a friendly relationship. Meanwhile pencil factory, the largest employer in Stanleyville, begins laying off its employees, Timothy convinces Cindy and Jim to design a prototype for a new pencil to keep the pencil-producing business viable. Unbeknownst to the parents, each time he fulfils one of the qualities listed on the original slips of paper, one of Timothy's leaves falls off. He eventually reveals to Cindy and Jim that his time of existence is short and that he will eventually disappear, and during another thunderstorm, Timothy vanishes from the house. The meeting for the Greens with the adoption agency concludes, Cindy presents a letter written by Timothy before he left, in which he explains that gave each of his fallen leaves to the people whose life was touched by him. After some time, the adoption counsellor pulls up to the Greens' house in a car with the little girl who is to become their daughter, Lily (Josey Cuthrell Tuttleman). Also starring Shohreh Aghdashloo as Evette Onat, Dianne Wiest as Ms. Bernice Crudstaff, Office Space's Ron Livingston as Franklin Crudstaff, James Rebhorn as Joseph Crudstaff and rapper Common as Coach Cal. Garner and Edgerton are reasonable as the childless couple, and there are good supporting cast members like Wiest and Morse, but with underwritten roles, the story of magic sprouting a dream child into reality could have been a good concept, but nothing notable happens after that, the biggest problem is that this is chock-a-block with sentimentality and schmaltz, it is way away from being charming or cute, it is just straining and stomach churning, a boring and disappointing fantasy comedy drama. Adequate!