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Simon Birch
MEANRANK
62/100
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Metacritic critics on 39, highest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 77. Critics average 42, everyone else 69.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →Simon Birch and Joe Wenteworth are boys who have a reputation for being oddballs. Joe never knew his father, and his mother, Rebecca, is keeping her lips sealed no matter how much he protests. Simon, meanwhile, is an 11-year-old dwarf whose outsize personality belies his small stature. Indeed, he often assails the local reverend with thorny theological questions and joins Joe on his quest to find his biological father.
Details
- Director
- Mark Steven Johnson
- Writer
- Mark Steven Johnson
- Based on
- a work by John Irving
- Studio
- Hollywood Pictures, Caravan Pictures
- Released
- 11 September 1998
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 114 min
- Rated
- PG
- Budget
- $20.0M
- Box office
- $18.3M
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