Simon Birch

“I’m going to be a hero.” “Pretty vague job description, isn’t it?” These lines of dialogue are a spoken between the lead character, Simon Birch, and Ben Goodrich, who is played by Oliver Platt. This proclamation sums up the driving force behind Simon’s actions. His quest to be a hero is Simon Birch’s ‘maguffin’. It is the thing that drives him forward through the film. Throughout the film he is constantly …showed first 75 words of 1680 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1680 total…or took into consideration that the movie was not the book, but rather an adaptation. Whether or not you enjoyed the movie seems to rely a lot on if you had read “ A Prayer for Owen Meany.” Unfortunately critics do not seem able to get passed discrepancies between the John Irving novel and the film, and by letting this affect their view of the movie so much they miss out on a truly good movie.