2007 · comedy · drama · music
Martian Child
Directed by Menno Meyjes1h 46m2007
A recently-widowed science fiction writer considers whether to adopt a hyper-imaginative 6-year-old abandoned and socially-rejected boy who says he's really from Mars.
Our read: Martian Child (2007) reads as a warm, steady, grounded comedy · drama · music entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Warm, steady, gentle comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender.
- warm
- gentle
- redemptive
- tender
- intimate
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