Why Is "The Odd Life of Timothy Green" Sad? (Responses May Contain a Spoiler)

Found this - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Odd_Life_of_Timothy_Green - doesn't contain the whole plot, but does imply the ending. I'm guessing it may be more melancholy or poignant an ending. Not "Hollywood" happy. Which is good, actually.

He kind of dies... sort of...

He isn't really born, he just appears, and he doesn't really die, he just disappears, but it's sad because his mother and father love him and then he's gone.

It isn't violent or gruesome or anything, but it is kind of heartbreaking.

I took my 6 year old son and our 7 year old (girl) neighbor. All 3 of us really enjoyed it, agreed that the end was sad, but still thought it was interesting. We had a lot of discussion in the car afterwards about how it might have ended differently, and agreed that really the way it ended was best after all.

Hope this helps.

T.

We loved the movie! My mom, ex and 4 kids ages 11-18. We did cry as it was sad, Timothy appears and returns to the garden. But we laughed too. It does end happily though! It's fantasy, that alone brings up much to talk about afterwards. Enjoy.

Here is the video of the crying brothers.. It is a total spoiler for the movie.

I think this is something that should have been discussed with these children right after the movie.

Good for you checking into it.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/shira-lazar/crying-timothy-...

Me and my girls (ages 12 and 6) LOVED this movie. It was heartwarming. I guess people thought it was sad because Timothy goes away or back to the garden at the end. My 6 year old handled it just fine though.

I found this by googling: movie is told as flashback.

As autumn sets in, it’s not just the leaves on the trees that are withering and falling; Timothy is forced to present Joni and his parents with some bittersweet information.

Sincere performances help keep the sappiness at bay through much of the film, but no one fares quite as well as the young C.J. Adams as Timothy, who has a consistently vibrant screen presence.

Diane Wiest, M. Emmet Walsh and David Morse contribute what they can to roles that are more caricatures than characters.

Fantasy films often fall victim to loose ends and gaping holes that prevent the threads of continuity that must provide the necessary “logic” within a given fantasy world. The absence of such continuity is enough to keep a film like this one from working well.

While Hedges presents some spectacular bucolic visuals, his minimalist approach to storyline detail requires moviegoers to ignore the lack of follow-through in both the flashback and interview scenes. The result is far more off-putting than captivating.

It's hard when you get attached to a character that's well created and seems so alive and then they die or get killed off.
(I cry every single time I see Bambi).
That doesn't make them bad movies.
Sometimes a tragedy can make you feel good in a round about way.
I just don't think kids can handle tragedies - it's not what we take them to the movies for.

My friend went to see this movie with her in-laws and said she was not very happy with it. Not the "feel good" movie it is made out to be. Before she saw it she was thinking about taking her 6 year old son to see it, but now after seeing it, glad she didn't.

If you want to know, here's the place to go. I often read the synapses of a movie to see if it's something that I want to spend money on or if it's something the kids can watch. Even on rental.

This spoiler site tells everything, to the last detail. It has thousands of movie spoilers so if you DO NOT WANT TO KNOW EVERY DETAIL then don't go.

You know what has to happen to him, he's not really theirs.

http://themoviespoiler.com/Spoilers/timothygreen.html

Usually I figure if a movie can make me cry it is a great movie.