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  • 2007
  • PG
  • New Line Cinema
  • 1 h 46 m
  • 2007
  • PG
  • New Line Cinema
  • 1 h 46 m

Summary A recently widowed science-fiction writer forms an unlikely family with a close friend and a young boy he adopts that claims to be from Mars. The new couple ignores some sage parenting advice from the widower's sister and gets more than they bargained for when a series of strange occurrences lead them to believe that the child's claim ma...

Directed By: Menno Meyjes

Written By: Seth Bass, Jonathan Tolins, David Gerrold

  • 2007
  • PG
  • New Line Cinema
  • 1 h 46 m
  • 2007
  • PG
  • New Line Cinema
  • 1 h 46 m

Martian Child

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 26 Critic Reviews
48
User Score Mixed or Average Based on 9 User Ratings
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Summary A recently widowed science-fiction writer forms an unlikely family with a close friend and a young boy he adopts that claims to be from Mars. The new couple ignores some sage parenting advice from the widower's sister and gets more than they bargained for when a series of strange occurrences lead them to believe that the child's claim ma...

Directed By: Menno Meyjes

Written By: Seth Bass, Jonathan Tolins, David Gerrold

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 26 Critic Reviews
48
35% Positive
9 Reviews
50% Mixed
13 Reviews
15% Negative
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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 26 Critic Reviews
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35% Positive
9 Reviews
50% Mixed
13 Reviews
15% Negative
4 Reviews

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75
Cusack, of course, is the perfect Anti-Schmaltz. His rapid-fire delivery makes everything he says sound like it's just pouring from his brain to his mouth, so that even the sappiest dialogue is rendered sincere.
By Connie Ogle FULL REVIEW
70
Knockout performances by John Cusack and child actor Bobby Coleman help legitimize a whimsical but sententiously moralizing script.
By Ronnie Scheib FULL REVIEW
63
The film plot about the needy kid who redeems a male loner has been done to death, and on the surface, Martian Child just looks like another entry in the genre, a close follower to “About A Boy.”
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50
Martian Child wants to make us cry. It nearly made me gag. This is an exercise in shameless and inept emotional manipulation.
By James Berardinelli FULL REVIEW
50
Cusack makes a half-hearted attempt to connect with Coleman, but chemistry is fatally absent and small wonder: Dennis is a unsettlingly strange creature who could well be from another planet.
By Ken Fox FULL REVIEW
40
Only in Hollywood can a movie about alien children be boring. Even if the kid isn’t really an alien (no spoilers), there’s still opportunity galore for the wild and the weird.
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25
It's off in many directions - false in its details, false in its relationships, false in its emotions - but probably the first and worst thing that needs to be said about it is that it's also overlong and dull.
By Mick LaSalle FULL REVIEW

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6.0
44% Positive
4 Ratings
33% Mixed
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22% Negative
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44% Positive
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33% Mixed
3 Ratings
22% Negative
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Production Company New Line Cinema, Hannah Rachel Production Services, MERADIN Zweite Productions
Release Date Nov 2, 2007
Duration 1 h 46 m
Rating PG
Genres
Tagline The story of a man becoming a father...and a boy becoming a son.
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Awards

Young Artist Awards
• 2 Nominations

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