Martian Child

In this film based on a David Gerrold novel, John Cusack stars as a recently widowed science-fiction writer who adopts a 6-year-old boy to quell his loneliness. The catch? The kid (Bobby Coleman) claims to be from Mars. The fledgling father doesn’t pay much attention to the boy’s story at first. But an odd series of events prompts him to wonder whether his son could be telling the truth. Amanda Peet and Joan Cusack co-star.