Martian Child movie

Crushed by the death of his fiancée, a writer adopts a 6-year-old boy in an effort to create a family. The boy, who desperately wants a father, is troubled by the idea that he's from Mars.

"The Martian Child" is a novelette by David Gerrold. It won the 1995 Hugo Award for Best Novelette and the 1994 Nebula Award for Best Novelette. The novelette is about a single man, a science fiction writer with a slightly surreal imagination, adopting a son. The story is based on the authors own experiences as a single adoptive parent, with most of the key moments drawn from actual events.

The main difference between the story and Gerrolds own experience is that David Gerrolds son never actually believed he was a Martian; the Martian identity was simply a game that the two of them played. The initial idea for the story actually came from a remark the author overheard about a child who told her teacher that she was really a Martian. Although nothing specifically science fictional occurs in the story, Gerrold does drop some otherworldly hints. A novel version was published in 2002. A motion picture based on the story is scheduled for release in 2007; it stars Joan Cusack, Amanda Peet, Oliver Platt, Sophie Okonedo, Richard Schiff, David Kaye, Angelica Huston, and Bobby Coleman as Dennis, the little boy.An important difference between the novelette/movie and the novel is the fact that David Gerrold was out about his homosexuality when he adopted his son.

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Martian Child Cast

• Alberto Ghisi
• Andrew McIlroy
• Angela Besharah
• Anita Brown
• Bill Hadden
• Carmen Moore
• Colin Ford
• Courtney Taylor Burness
• Daniel Pepper
• Doris Berg Coleman
• Erica Jones
• Jessica Amlee
• John Cusack
• Jonathan Holmes
• Julianna Rose
• Kirsten Williamson
• Lauro Chartrand
• Maria DiMartino
• Oliver Platt
• Robert Clarke
• Samuel Patrick Chu
• Suzy Joachim
• Taya Calicetto
• Wilson Kwok
• Zak Ludwig