![]() ![]() If God has made the bake sale a priority, we're all in a lot of trouble.'' All of this is a scene-raiser for the melodramatic climax, in which it appears that God has perhaps indeed made Simon a priority. Russell is asking God's help for a fund-raiser, and Simon stands up on his pew to announce, "I doubt if God is interested in our church activities. Simon uses his size as a license to say exactly what he thinks on all occasions, loudly and clearly, as when the Rev. Simon's dwarfism doesn't prevent him from going everywhere and doing everything, and even taking his turn at bat in a Little League game when he finally does gets a hit, there are tragic consequences. (The last time Rebecca met someone on the Boston & Maine, her mother recalls, she came home pregnant.) Simon and Joe occupy a world of their own, swimming and boating and slipping invisibly around town. Russell ( David Strathairn), the local minister Grandma Wenteworth ( Dana Ivey), Rebecca's mother Miss Leavey ( Jan Hooks), the Sunday school teacher who endures Simon's theological insights, and Ben ( Oliver Platt), a man Rebecca meets on the train and brings home for supper. They include Simon's loutish parents, who don't like him the Rev. The other key characters could all be from Norman Rockwell paintings. "You're already a bastard, might as well be an enlightened one.'' Rebecca is a sunny, loving mother whose one lapse has, if anything, improved her character. "I don't understand why she doesn't just tell you,'' Simon says. ![]() Joe is a boy without a father his mother, Rebecca ( Ashley Judd), steadfastly refuses to name names. ![]() If you were me, you'd know, too.'' Joe and Simon are drawn together because they're both misfits. Girls don't kiss baby turtles.'' How do you know, asks Joe. When Joe tells him a local girl finds him cute, he sniffs, "She means cute like a baby turtle is cute. He is very short and very cute, and very wise about the fact of his dwarfism. Played by Ian Michael Smith with remarkable cockiness, he's the smartest person in Sunday school and possibly in town. ![]()
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