Martian Child Movie
The touching comedy-drama concerns successful sci-fi novelist David Gordon (John Cusack) who suffers from writer's block after the two-years-ago death of his beautiful wife Mary. He tries to cope with his overwhelming grief and fill up the gap in his heart by adopting a young troubled boy named Dennis (Bobby Coleman) who believes he is from the planet Mars. Some time later, the 6-year-old kid begins acting in peculiar ways, thus making his foster father believe that his claim is true.
Tagline
- The story of a man becoming a father... and a boy becoming a son.
The story of a man becoming a father...and a boy becoming a son.
Movie Info
- Year:
- 2007
- IMDB Rating:
- 7.1
- IMDB Votes:
- 837
- Countries:
- USA
- Genres:
- Drama
- Tags:
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Brother sister relationship, Father son relationship, Cemetery, Dog, Baseball, Based on book, Child, Based on true story, Author, Small town
- Domestic:
- $7,500,310 (80.7%)
- + Foreign:
- $1,792,136 (19.3%)
- = Worldwide:
- $9,292,446
- Opening
Weekend: - $3,376,669 (2,020 theaters, $1,671 average) % of Total Gross: 45.0%
- Release:
- 2,020 theaters