Martian Child

Rated: PG
Distributor: New Line Cinema
Release Date: 2007-11-02

Starring: John Cusack, Amanda Peet, Oliver Platt, Sophie Okonedo, Bobby Coleman, Joan Cusack

Directed by Menno Meyjes
Produced by Ed Elbert, David Kirschner, Corey Sienega
Written by Seth Bass, Jonathan Tolins, based on the novel by David Gerrold

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 true.