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:) I loved this movie. I cried the whole time so I went to see it by myself so DH wouldn't make fun of me! I brought kleenex with me because I'm lame like that. I guess as far as scripts/plots go it wasn't the best but if you are living the fost/adopt life then you will love the movie. It got horrible reviews (I'm guessing because it was a movie of substance).
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Here is the sumamry I found on the internet: 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? You can get it from any store that sells DVDs..I got it from Block Buster previously viewed for like $6 or $7..
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One of my favorite parts of this movie were it's little bits of realism. After the boy moves in, there is a bright orange hurricane fence around the landscaping pool in the backyard - California requires all pools to be fenced in. Also, I loved the "break it like you mean it" scene. Critics hated that scene because it was unrealistic, but what could be more real than teaching a child that they are more important than the things in a house?
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I am an adoptee and I loved this movie. I have seen them all, movies about being adopted. This one really depicted at least on the bare bones what it is like to be abandoned/adopted. The length or depth a child will go to as they live in literal fear.I figured out later in life that I grew up being afraid that I would be murdered. Murdered...can you believe that. I just thought that if my so called REAL parents gave me away then there must have been something REALLY wrong with me. So if I wasn't perfect or morphed into whomever I was with wanted me to be then I would somehow cease to exist. Not murdered in the knife or gun sense, but murdered in the infanticide sense.So...I completely connected to the child in "Martian Child". It was pretty spot on compared to most movies I have seen on this subject.Sincerely,Chynna
I saw this movie when it came out and have seen it several times since. The one HUGE reason I liked it is because it truly shows how being put up for adoption...abandonment...can and most definitely will make someone deeply emotionally and mentally handicap.
Many of the movies with the theme of adoption as the overall subject matter tends to make it seem like a child given up for adoption or abandoned is suddenly whisked into euphoria by being adopted or rescued by the adoptive party.
It just isn't the case most of the time. So I think this did a superb job in showing how abandoned children and even infants will assuredly have emotional/mental challenges.
A+ in my book.
Sincerely,
ChynnaL
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I just wanted to post and bring this up to the top again for anyone that didn't see it. I think we've only related to two movies with adoption themes - Martian Child and The Blind Side. I have to bring this up because I recently saw "The Three Stooges" and it has to have the worst adoption story and stereotyping ever. (I still laughed, but I'm very ashamed . . .)