Martian Child

Name: Martian Child
Genre: Drama, Family
Released: November 2, 2007
Duration: 106 min
Rating: 48
Cast: Amanda Peet, Bobby Coleman, John Cusack

2007

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New Line Cinema | Release Date: November 2, 2007 | PG

Starring: Amanda Peet, Bobby Coleman, John Cusack

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 mayA 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 may be true. (New Line Cinema)… Expand

Director: Menno Meyjes

Genre(s): Drama, Family

Rating: PG

Runtime: 106 min

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Claudia Puig

An occasionally schmaltzy but likable story of healing and redemption. Read full review

Ronnie Scheib

Knockout performances by John Cusack and child actor Bobby Coleman help legitimize a whimsical but sententiously moralizing script. Read full review

Tasha Robinson

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.” Read full review

Elizabeth Weitzman

The entire cast is fully committed to this squishily sentimental tale, which is especially impressive given that it's the kind of generic dramedy you'll swear you've seen a thousand times before. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Ken Fox

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. Read full review

Liam Lacey

Whatever glimmers of cleverness Martian Child offers, it all comes to Earth with a thud in the shamelessly manipulative climax. Read full review

Mick LaSalle

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. Read full review

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JoeB.

Apr 30, 2009

John Cusack is a real artist! He plays this father simply great - non-plus-ultra! He is unique and the whole story touched me to tears. A File for men (maybe more than for women) Greetz from Germany.