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Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Martian child [videorecording] / New Line Cinema presents Rachel Production Services, Ltd. ; New Line Cinema ; produced by David Kirschner, Corey Sienega, Ed Elbert ; screenplay by Seth E. Bass & Jonathan Tolins ; directed by Menno Meyjes.

Publisher, Date:

Burbank, CA : New Line Home Entertainment : Warner Home Video [distributor, 2008]

Description:

1 videodisc (108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

David is a widowed science fiction writer who adopts Dennis, a young boy who claims to be from the Red Planet. David believes the child acts strangely in order to process the difficulty he has had in his young life, but soon both David and his sister, Liz, begin to wonder if the boy might be telling the truth.

Target Audience Note:

MPAA rating: PG; for thematic elements and mild language.

Subjects:

Widowers -- United States -- Drama.

Authors, American -- Drama.

Adoption -- United States -- Drama.

Imagination in children -- Drama.

Life on other planets -- Drama.

Autores estadounidenses -- Teatro.

Adopción -- Estados Unidos -- Teatro.

Melodrama.

Film adaptations.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Feature films.

Other Author:

Elbert, Ed.

Kirschner, David, 1955-

Sienega, Corey.

Bass, Seth E.

Tolins, Jonathan.

Meyjes, Menno.

Cusack, John, 1966-

Coleman, Bobby, 1997-

Peet, Amanda, 1972-

Okonedo, Sophie.

Cusack, Joan, 1962-

Platt, Oliver.

Gerrold, David, 1944- Martian child.

New Line Cinema Corporation.

New Line Home Entertainment (Firm)

Warner Home Video (Firm)

Notes:

Based on the book by David Gerrold.

Special features: audio commentary with producers Corey Sienega and David Kirschner, writers Seth Bass and Jonathan Tolins; "Handle with care: working with the Martian child" documentary; "The real Martian child" featurette; deleted scenes; theatrical trailer.

Director of photography, Robert Yeoman ; editor, Bruce Green ; music, Aaron Zigman ; costume designer, Michael Dennison ; production designer, Hugo Luczyc-Wyhowski.

John Cusack, Bobby Coleman, Amanda Peet, Sophie Okonedo, Joan Cusack, Oliver Platt.

DVD ; Region 1 ; widescreen (1.85:1) presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround, Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo. surround.

In English, with English or Spanish subtitles.

Closed-captioned.

ISBN:

0780656733

9780780656734

Publisher Number:

1000031708

Other Number:

183717096

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

209143

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

DVD MOVIE Martian

Medium:

[videorecording]