Rating: PG
Genre:
Comedy Drama
Theatrical Release: 11/02/2007(USA)
Release Date: 02/12/2008
SubTitles: English/Espanol
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD5.1/DDS2.0
Run Time: 107 Minutes
Flags: Adult Situations
Distributor/Studio: New Line Home Video
Adapted from a Hugo and Nebula Award-winning novelette by author
David Gerrold,
Menno Meyjes's
Martian Child stars
John Cusack as a widowed
science fiction writer who adopts a boy (
Bobby Coleman) who claims to be from the Red Planet. The writer believes the child acts strangely in order to process the difficulty he has had in his young life, but soon both he and his sister (
Joan Cusack) begin to wonder if the boy might be telling the truth.
Amanda Peet co-stars as the woman who becomes a mother figure for the boy.
~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide