Somewhere (film)

Martian Child (2007)

Actors: Sophie Okonedo (actress), Anjelica Huston (actress), Joan Cusack (actress), David Lewis (actor), Howard Hesseman (actor), Hrothgar Mathews (actor), Oliver Platt (actor), Richard Schiff (actor), David Kaye (actor), John Cusack (actor), Peter Bryant (actor), Tony Alcantar (actor), Lauro Chartrand (actor), Toby Emmerich (producer), Amanda Peet (actress),

Plot: What's the nature of being a parent and of being a child? David is a widower grieving for two years. He writes science fiction and was considered weird as a boy. He meets Dennis, a foster child who claims to be on a mission from Mars, stays in a large box all day, fears sunlight, and wears a belt of flashlight batteries so he won't float away. David takes the six-year-old home on a trial. His sister and his wife's best friend offer support, but the guys are basically alone to figure this out. Dennis takes things, is expelled, and is coached by David in being normal. Will the court approve the adoption, and will Dennis stay? Can a man become a father and a child become a son?

Keywords: abandonment, adopted-son, adoption, adult-child-bonding, agent, alien-language, animated-end-credits, aunt-nephew-relationship, author, ball
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Family,
Taglines: The story of a man becoming a father...and a boy becoming a son. It doesn't matter where you come from, as long as you find where you belong! Some fathers and sons grow up together.

Quotes:

[from trailer]::David: [as Dennis enters house for the first time] Just think of it as a bigger box...

[from trailer]::David: Why did they send you here? You know, the Martians?::Dennis: To join a family and to learn human beingness.

[from trailer]::Dennis: Was I bad?::David: I don't care about any of that stuff. Look, this is just stuff. [Drops a bowl]::Dennis: [Drops a bowl softly]::David: Come on! Break it like you mean it! [Throws another bowl]::David: [Dennis throws some plates] Now that! Come on!

[from trailer]::David: I do know, there's no one on this planet that loves Dennis anymore than I do.

[from trailer]::David: I don't want to bring another kid into this world. But how do you argue against loving one that's already here?

Dennis: But then I started doing science and realized the Earth was spinning around the sun at 67,000 miles per hour. held in place by gravity and I thought "What the heck do I need to be from Mars for?"

Dennis: [after doing the Martian dance] Nice talk.

David: That's a good question, which is usually what adults say if they don't know the answer.

David: Isn't he wild?::Harlee: He's great, like a little Andy Warhol.::David: He has the same social skills, by the way.::Harlee: You know what I think it is?::David: What?::Harlee: He's an old soul.::David: What does that mean? [pause] Seriously.::Harlee: It just means he's figured it out.

David: Sometimes we forget that children have just arrived on the earth. They are a little like aliens, coming into beings as bundles of energy and pure potential, here on some exploratory mission and they are just trying to learn what it means to be human. For some reason Dennis and I reached out into the universe and found each other, Never really know how or why. And discovered that I can love an alien and he can love a creature. And thats weird enough for both of us.