Cast members, crews, and 168 extras braved the biting cold temperatures for the first day of filming  "The Odd Life of Timothy Green," starring Jennifer Garner and Joel Edgerton at Forrest Hills Elementary in Decatur for the movie.

At one point, Garner was seen jumping up and down trying to stay warm under Wednesday's cloud cover and whipping wind between takes.

In "The Odd Life of Timothy Green," the school's name becomes Millard Fillmore Elementary and Garner and Edgerton play Cindy and Jim Green. 

For this particular scene - No. 71 in the film - Garner was wearing a timeless school marmish gray jacket with a below the knee skirt and tights. Between takes, she put on a long black jacket.

After one of the several takes, Garner walked to where the cameras were and kissed a little girl wearing movie set earphones, presumably her 5-year-old daughter Violet (Her husband, Ben Affleck was nowhere to be seen).

"The Odd Life of Timothy Green," written and directed by Peter Hedges (whose credits include "Dan in Real Life," and "What's Eating Gilbert Grape"), is about a couple - the Greens - who can't wait to start a family but can only dream about what their child would be like.

When young Timothy Green (C.J. Adams) shows up on their doorstep one stormy night, the Greens and their small town of Stanleyville, discover a whole new view on what it is to love and be loved.

For scene 71, Garner and Edgerton were walking their ficticious son to school. Playing Mrs. Green, Garner was hand-in-hand with her husband as she worried whether young Timothy had enough school supplies for his first day of school. Children rode their bicycles, and a black Kia drove by. 

After their son went into the doorway to school, Garner turned around and said "good morning," to a kid nearby. After that, the scene ended and someone yelled out, "Keep that good morning at the end."

Filming for movie will take two months in Georgia. While Decatur's brush with the movie will be over on Monday, the filming will continue in other locations, including Canton, Tucker, Monroe and in Morgan County.

While it's too soon to say how much "The Odd Life of Timothy Green" filming will impact Georgia, the state's economic impact of production activity of all movies and television increased 550 percent to $1.6 billion in the past three years, according to the Georgia Department of Economic Development. 

Forrest Hills Elementary closed in 2007 and has been unoccupied since.