Simon Birch (1998)
A young boy with stunted growth is convinced that God has a great purpose for him
The Hotel New Hampshire (1984)
A family weathers all sorts of disasters and keeps going in spite of everything, in a film noted for its wonderful assortment of oddball characters
The World According to Garp (1982)
A struggling young writer finds his life and work dominated by his unfaithful wife and his radical feminist mother, whose best selling manifesto turns her into a cultural icon
The Cider House Rules (1999)
During World War II, an orphan grows up under the tutelage of a doctor who runs an orphanage However, he yearns for freedom and soon decides to leave in order to make a life for himself