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Directed by | Menno Meyjes |
Screenplay by | Seth E. Bass Jonathan Tolins |
Based on | The Martian Child by David Gerrold |
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Cinematography | Robert D. Yeoman |
Edited by | Bruce Green |
Music by | Aaron Zigman |
Production company | MERADIN Zweite Productions |
Distributed by | New Line Cinema |
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Running time | 106 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $27 million[citation needed] |
Box office | $9.4 million[1] |
Martian Child is a 2007 American comedy-drama film directed by Menno Meyjes and based on David Gerrold's 1994 novelette (not the expanded 2002 novel) of the same name. The film stars John Cusack as a writer who adopts a strange young boy (Bobby Coleman) who believes himself to be from Mars. The film was theatrically released on November 2, 2007, by New Line Cinema.