Synopsis
Martian Child (2007) is an American family drama directed by Menno Meyjes that you can watch online on iFILM. John Cusack plays David, a widowed science-fiction writer who decides to adopt a child — partly to fill a silence he doesn't know how to live inside.
The boy he meets, Dennis (Bobby Coleman), doesn't speak much and won't come out of a cardboard box. His reason: sunlight is harmful to Martians, and he is, he says, from Mars. David isn't sure whether to call a specialist or just buy the kid some sunscreen. The script, based on David Gerrold's autobiographical novel, doesn't settle that question cheaply. Amanda Peet, Joan Cusack and Oliver Platt orbit the story as the people in David's life who all have a different theory about what's actually going on.
It's a quiet film about two people — one grieving, one abandoned — figuring out how to exist in the same space. Doesn't oversell its emotional moments. Watch Martian Child (2007) online on iFILM.
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