Simon Birch
Plot
While Simon and Joe are riding the bus home, the driver swerves to miss a deer and it crashes into a lake. With the driver abandoning the bus and Russell unconscious, Simon takes command and gets everyone out with Joe's help, but nearly drowns while saving the last child. Later, Joe wakes up in the hospital and goes to visit a dying Simon. He sees Marjorie call Simon brave and kiss him, before leaving and letting Joe talk to him. Simon wakes up upon hearing him, remarking how his small size worked to his advantage in evacuating the kids. They bid each other farewell before Simon dies. Joe's grandmother passes away that summer and he is adopted by Ben just before his 13th birthday. Back in the present day with adult Joe at Simon's grave, Joe's son, named after Simon, reminds him that he has a soccer game, and they drive away as the film ends.
Reception
The film opened at #5 at the North American box office making $3,321,370 in its opening weekend. The film would go on to gross $18,253,415 domestically, against a $20 million budget.
Simon Birch
Simon Birch is a 1998 American comedy-drama film loosely based on the 1989 novel A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving and written for the screen and directed by Mark Steven Johnson in his directorial debut. The film stars Ian Michael Smith, Joseph Mazzello, Jim Carrey, Ashley Judd, and Oliver Platt. It omitted much of the latter half of the novel and altered the ending.
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