When the bus driver abandons the children, and the reverend is knocked unconscious, Simon takes command to get everyone out safely. While Simon and Joe are riding the bus home, it crashes into a lake. Reverend Russell admits this to Joe at the retreat, just as Simon arrives with the baseball. Simon has Ben drive him to the retreat to inform Joe. However, he breaks into the reverend's office to get them back, inadvertently finding the fateful baseball implicating the reverend as Joe's father. But when Simon assaults Margerie, after seeing her cleavage, she hits Joe, knocking the wind out of him, and Howard pukes on the stage.Īs a result of the pageant, Simon is not allowed on the retreat and his baseball cards are taken away. The turtle doves look like winged mutant turtles, the wise men cannot remember the words to "We, Three Kings", and Howard is so scared he forgets his lines. Simon helps a kid not be afraid, and mentions that children listen to him because of how he looks. Simon agrees when he realizes that he will be able to stay next to Margerie for the entire play. The prettiest girl, Margerie, is chosen to play Mary Howard is playing the angel despite his crippling fear of heights and Simon is the baby Jesus, as he is the only one who fits in the manger. However, he fears that it could happen at any time, and he could miss it.Īs the Christmas pageant arrives the children are chosen for their parts. Simon informs Ben of his destiny to be a hero, but admits that he doesn't know what that will imply. Ben picks them up from the police station and takes them for ice cream. The police chief agrees to let them off, if they go to the children's retreat over their winter break. It isn't there, and Joe vandalizes the office, believing that he will never find his real father. They break into the gym teacher's office to find if he has the baseball that killed Rebecca, as that would implicate him as Joe's father. Joe and Simon believe that Joe's father may have taken the baseball. Joe decides his only hope is to find his real father. Joe's grandmother informs him that there must be a plan should she die as Rebecca never told ANYONE who Joe's father was, even in confidence.
Joe disagrees saying that his mother's death was an accident. Simon and Joe have an argument Simon claiming that everything he does is ordained.
Simon gives Joe his most prized possession, his baseball cards as an apology. It's a foul ball that hits Rebecca in the head, immediately killing her. One day, while playing baseball, Simon Birch is given the perfect pitch, and hits it. The Sunday School teacher belittles him stating that he doesn't belong in church, and his belief that God has a special plan for him is ridiculous.
He says, in front of the congregation, that if God had made these things a priority, they were in trouble. Simon doesn't believe that the niceties of church are necessary. Ben Goodrich, a drama teacher, meets Joe and Simon and brings a stuffed armadillo for Joe. One day Rebecca invites a man she met on the train to dinner. Simon is also obsessed with how long he can hold his breath underwater, always trying to improve this ability. The fact that she refused to reveal the identity of the father has caused Joe to be a living town scandal. Joe's mother, Rebecca Wentworth, got pregnant in high school, the only fact anyone knows about Joe's parentage, is that Rebecca met him on a train. Simon loved baseball despite the fact that he almost never got to play, and when he did it was only to get a walk from his small strike zone. Nobody believed that he would survive, but Simon believed he was a legitimate miracle. Simon was the smallest birth in the history of Gravestown.
#SIMON BIRCH MOVIE#
The story begins being narrated by an adult Joe visiting the grave of Simon Birch, the rest of the movie takes place in 1964.
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