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Martian Child
Directed by
Menno Meyjes
PG-13
2007
1h 46m
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6.7
35%
72%
6.7
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A widowed science-fiction writer considers adopting a six-year-old outcast who thinks he's an alien from Mars.
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Cast of Martian Child
John Cusack
David
Bobby Coleman
Dennis
Amanda Peet
Harlee
Sophie Okonedo
Sophie
Joan Cusack
Liz
Oliver Platt
Jeff
Richard Schiff
Lefkowitz
Taya Calicetto
Esther
David Kaye
Andy
Braxton Bonneville
Nicholas
Samuel Charles
Jonas
Zak Ludwig
Young David
Samuel Patrick Chu
Boy at Group Home
Ryan Morrissette
Boy at Group Home
Nimet Kanji
Housekeeper
Howard Hesseman
Dr. Berg
Carmen Moore
Miss Margie
Beverley Breuer
Mrs. Tompkins
Jonathan Holmes
Dracoban Director
Andrew McIlroy
Earl of Dracoban
Martian Child Ratings & Reviews
New York Daily News
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.
Ebert & Roeper
Richard Roeper
Everybody is very earnest, too earnest.
New York Post
Kyle Smith
Has enough wit and unpredictability to hold your attention.
San Francisco Chronicle
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.
Newsday
Gene Seymour
Cusack and Coleman make this whimsical trip worthwhile.
Los Angeles Times
Carina Chocano
Martian Child would like to be About a Boy (Who Thinks He's a Martian), but, disappointingly, it doesn't even come close.
Detroit News
Tom Long
Director Menno Meyjes keeps the sci-fi suspense quotient up just enough to make the ending somewhat disappointingly pat.
Detroit Free Press
John Monaghan
The movie can also be accused of its own sugar overdose as director Menno Meyjes piles on every clichéd situation.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
So bland and safe that it might appeal more directly to children than adults.
Chicago Reader
J. R. Jones
Cusack carries this unabashed tearjerker.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
One soggy slab of sentimental uplift.
MovieFreak.com
Sara Michelle Fetters
This is a movie the whole family will, not only enjoy, but probably downright love, the boisterous applause from the preview audience I saw it with ample proof of that.
New York Times
Manohla Dargis
100 percent goo.
USA Today
Claudia Puig
An occasionally schmaltzy but likable story of healing and redemption.
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
Before long, the story's conceit -- a loud-and-clear metaphor for the ways in which we all sometimes feel alien when it comes to human relationships -- just becomes wearying.
Arizona Republic
Randy Cordova
It either is stiff and dry or it piles on the schmaltz in absurd amounts. In that sense, it offers the worst of both worlds.
AV Club
Scott Tobias
The science-fiction elements are mere window dressing for a story that's most affecting when it's down to earth, rather than when it's following its heroes' flights of fancy.
Chicago Tribune
Tasha Robinson
In December, Cusack will be back on screen in Grace Is Gone, another portrait of a grieving widower struggling to raise children. Viewers may want to hold out to see him in a film that maintains its sensitivity all the way through.
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
Martian Child feels artificially sweetened rather than genuinely moving.
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