What's the nature of being a parent and of being a child? David is a widower grieving for two years. He writes science fiction and was considered weird as a boy. He meets Dennis, a foster child who claims to be on a mission from Mars, stays in a large box all day, fears sunlight, and wears a belt of flashlight batteries so he won't float away. David takes the six-year-old home on a trial. His sister and his wife's best friend offer support, but the guys are basically alone to figure this out. Dennis takes things, is expelled, and is coached by David in being normal. Will the court approve the... adoption, and will Dennis stay? Can a man become a father and a child become a son?
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Knockout 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 f...
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...
The 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-v...
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This film really allows you to see how fragile the human psyche really is and the things we do as children and adults and the effects it has on those we know and or love. Great acting, extraodinary storyline, and when I say extraordinary I mean beyond what is usual, ordinary, regular, or established, a must see!
Love is an amazing thing, and the strangness of this work sometimes force us to make things, and create thing in order to protect ourselves from the world.
Awesome, we need not be child psychologists to mend, at least for Dennis's age, lots of love and understanding on our part. I enjoyed it, the breakthru was so anti-climatic, I wanted a re-write, but it was right in the end. 8/10
enjoyed the movie and believe me he is totally from mars 
