everything you have heard about this movie is true.

If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Martian Child Never ever, never-never-never, never ever give up Recently I have watched the comedy drama directed by Menno Meyjes and David Gerrold (the roman's author of the same name) that is called "Martian child" which includes too many psychological and philosophical topics. The main actors are Amanda Peet, John Cusack, Oliver Platt who have already played in the same movie before and the child, Bobby Coleman. All of them are truly professionals. By the way, John Cusack is so popular with many of his roles, but his role as David in "Martian Child" is really successful. The viewer may notice how sensible, helpful and friendly he is, he definitely feels his character. Bobby Coleman has managed wonderfully to play such a difficult character as the Martian Child.He is just an ancient sole. He has puzzled all secrets out.It is a really deep, beautiful and thought-provoking movie. It depicts one of the most serious problems of society, frames and standards. The matter is that if you are unordinary, if you do not look alike, if you are different, people think you are abnormal, crazy or have some psychological disorders and nobody wants to deal with you. The main character of the movie knows what such people feel because he was an outcast when he went to school that is why the Martian Child has become so close to him. The Martian Child is a sullen boy who is constantly sitting in the box and imagines that he has come to the planet to perform the mission. David (John Cusack) seems to be a very wise person here; although he told in the very beginning that he had not had anything common with the psychology he managed to build a very harmonic relation with a boy based on a really deep understanding of psychology. The main principle is not to damage. David has decided not to interfere in the child's mind, he doesn't make any demands or impose himself, he just gives the opportunity to the kid to open his inner world to others, and he let the child do some small steps when he is ready to do them.In spite of the impressive play of John Cusack, it is very important to listen to him in this movie and to hear what he says because many things are really wise that have been mentioned here.The boy who has been abandoned once tries to explain the act of his parent. He imagined his own world and created the whole story and believed in it so much that he began living the part. He has decided that he is Martian and he is not abandoned but sent to perform a very important mission on the Earth. He was the way too into it that he was able to do some small miracles like to guess what colour an M&M's candy eating it with closed eyes or to change colours of the traffic light because all our thoughts have a great impact on out lives and may change a lot. It was not an easy business to open the inner mind of this child and we could see it when David was not able to control his emotions or words but finally he managed. Danny grounded when he took the awful truth and asked, "Why did they leave me?"I wanted to show you that not all parents may disappearThe culmination of the movie is the episode on the roof when Danny decided to go to his "biological" Martian parents. There have been many sensible episodes before, for example, when the dog passed away or some David's tries of father's acts of love, but the episode of the roof is the revelation, to which the scriptwriter had been coming for the whole film. Here both of the characters are absolutely opened and defenseless to each other. They both came to a new period of their father-and-son relations.It's wonderful how the director managed to cover so many topics for discussions in such a short movie with a few characters and was able to show all spheres of David's life.In conclusion, I would like to add that this movie is really worth to watch. If you are wit, clever and like long philosophical discussions, you should concentrate one hour and a half on this movie leaving all your problems behind.

There is something in this movie that makes me rewatch this film. The main role is played by the inimitable John Cusack. In this film, we need to listen to him very carefully. He says wise things to which we should not only listen to it, but also hear. The film is intended for family viewing, although the genre is listed as a drama, but nothing particularly dramatic in it. Although sometimes touching scenes make me shed a tear. I liked the film precisely with its meaning and touchingness. I watched it in one breath. And even those that made me think about how I would behave in place of the main character. Could I raise a foster child? In general, the film with meaning. It raises the topic of fathers and children, foster children and adoptive parents. I advise you to watch this film without exception.

The film Martian Child after reading the title gives a lot of ideas what it is going to be about. Either it is about space, or an astronaut or a child doing something unusual. My third idea was pretty close to the content of the film. I liked the film very much. It brought so many thought to my mind, made me cry and persuaded that there is always a hope, even for a little creature on the Earth to find that right person. The genre of the film is drama plus comedy. You can laugh at the actors or you can cry at the emotions they evoke. The film is about an orphan Denis, who as he says came from Mars and a man, a writer, who decided to adopt Denis. He was left by his parents when he was very small and probably he told everybody that he was from Mars because he believed that his parents were there. He tried to conceal the pain that he understood when he grew older that in that orphanage he was absolutely alone and tried to convince himself that there, on Mars, he has somebody. He was the alien on the Earth and didn't have anyone to rely on. So the film shows all the problems and obstacles that can appear between adults and children, the sorrow that can experience a person and how this person struggles against it, loneliness and the fear to stay alone. I adored acting by the starring actors John Cusack and Bobby Coleman. They were so plausible and sincere, so emotional and persuading that they made the film even tenderer. So, I would say that this is a typical drama with happy ending that make people believe in good. I would recommend watching this film with your family to have good time and experience some new emotions. The rating I would give is 8 out of 10.

A successful science fiction writer David Gordon (John Cusack) has recently lost his wife. Still suffering from the loss, he finds a boy who considers himself a Martian. The boy, who lives in the box among the stars that can be seen only by him. Social services and David's sister can't dissuade David from letting the stranger in his home and subsequently in his heart. Dennis (Bobby Coleman) is a Martian. To go outside, he needs to use sunscreen, and he is sure that must fulfill his mission and will soon return to his home planet. He is the outcast, but David's love and faith help Dennis find a way out from the box and become a normal even a kind of happy boy. This movie is unique and thought-provoking one, because it touches so many issues: the problem of identity and self-worth, child up-bringing and the feeling of responsibility. I believe that «Martian Child» is a movie that could be really useful for parents and for teachers as well. It gives the insight into the fact that so many kids are different and at the same time they are special and wonderful. Such children need the chance to live normal life among the people who love them. Yes! They are extraordinary, they don't live on the Earth, they live among the stars. Nevertheless, they need someone who can help them, who can take them to the Earth and make their trip breathtaking even within the limits of our planet. But the parents should remember one motto "Never ever, ever, ever, ever, ever give up".