Martian Child (2007) - Movie Details

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Release Date:	November 2, 2007
On DVD:	February 12, 2008
Genre:	Drama, Romance
Director:	Menno Meyjes
Writer:	Seth Bass, David Gerrold
Cast:	John Cusack, Amanda Peet, Oliver Platt, Sophie Okonedo, Bobby Coleman, Joan Cusack
Studio:	New Line Cinema
Official site:	martianchild.com
Running Time:	108 minutes
MPAA Rating:	Rated PG for thematic elements and mild language

The romantic drama "Martian Child" stars John Cusack as a recently widowed science fiction writer who forms an unlikely family with a close friend (Amanda Peet) 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 (Joan Cusack) and gets more than they bargained for when a series of strange occurrences lead them to believe that the child's claim may be...

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John Cusack, Joan Cusack and Amanda Peet star in Martian Child, a light family drama that works its magic well enough, yet never fully capitalizes on its concept. The result is an okay but subdued drama that will quickly be forgotten.

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