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Genres:
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Drama /
Family
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Director:
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Menno Meyjes
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Actors:
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Joan Cusack,
Sophie Okonedo,
Bobby Coleman,
Zak Ludwig,
Bud,
Taya Calicetto,
Braxton Bonneville,
Samuel Charles,
Ryan Morrissette,
John Cusack,
Amanda Peet,
Oliver Platt,
Richard Schiff,
David Kaye,
Samuel Patrick Chu
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Duration:
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106 min.
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Rating:
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(6.9/10)104.5
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Plot Summary:
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What's the nature of being a fountain-head and of being a juvenile? David is a widower grieving notwithstanding two years. He writes science fiction and was considered other-worldly as a attendant. He meets Dennis, a foster son who claims to be on a ministry from Mars, stays in a sizeable box all time, fears sunlight, and wears a band of flashlight batteries so he won't establish away. David takes the six-year-primordial home on a trial. His sister and his ball's worst cocker tender support, but the guys are basically alone to design this at large. Dennis takes things, is expelled, and is coa... ched by David in being normal. Longing the court approve the adoption, and pass on Dennis stay? Can a fetters become a father and a child become a son?
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Martian Child
Ronnie ScheibKnockout performances by John Cusack and child actor Bobby Coleman help legitimize a whimsical but sententiously moralizing script about the wonders of parenting in helmer Menno Meyjes' Martian Child. Soppy tale of a widower who adopts a kid who believes he's from Mars is transformed, through thesps' intensity, into a nicely weird, often engrossing two-hander, though no one else in the excellent cast fares as well. Since the two lead actors are almost constantly onscreen, Martian Child only occasionally thuds to Earth. Opening wide Nov. 2, the New Line release could find a cozy holiday niche.
David (Cusack), a successful sci-fi author still grieving for his wife two years after her death, considers adopting Dennis (Coleman), an orphan who spends mos...
Sweet little film
This is a very nice under the radar kind of film, which I quite enjoyed. I watched it with my partner and he really liked it as well, although he found Joan Cusack a little annoying at points as she seems to act a part that she has played so many times before. If you like John Cusack this will definitely help as he is the real centre of the film. Basically, it is about a guy who is still troubled by the death of his wife and doesn't really feel a part of society or anything around him. He then adopts a kid who believes he is from Mars and clearly has similar contact issues with reality. The film is then about them getting to grips with eachother. It is nice, there is nothing particularly unpredictable or indeed overly sentimental about it, but as a sunday afternoon film - worth a watch...
Martian Child
Carina ChocanoThe story of a single man who reluctantly takes a weird kid under his wing and ends up with a kooky, cobbled-together family of his own, Martian Child would like to be About a Boy (Who Thinks He's a Martian) , but, disappointingly, it doesn't even come close.
Based on a novel by science fiction writer David Gerrold (who loosely based the book on his experiences as a single, gay science fiction writer adopting a 6-year-old boy), the movie stars John Cusack as David Gordon, a straight science fiction writer who adopts a 6-year-old boy two years after the death of his beloved wife. The kid is called Dennis (Bobby Coleman), and he's a skinny, squeaky-voiced oddball whose many eccentricities include wearing a weight belt to keep from floating away and...
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