The Martian Child (2007)

The Martian Child is a movie based on the novelette by the same name and written by David Gerrold. As an aside note, Gerrold wrote a great episode of Star Trek entitle The Trouble with Tribbles! Back to the movie, it is an interesting story about a science fiction writer who decides to adopt a boy that thinks he is from Mars. You are left to decide if the boy is trying to cope with being abandoned or he is from Mars, you can let your imagination run wild with this story. The movie differs greatly from the novelette in that the main character of the book is an openly gay man who decides to adopt a boy and of course, Hollywood feels the need to make him heterosexual with a female love interest so the audience, I guess, does not feel uncomfortable. I feel if you are going to make a movie based on an award winning book, the core elements of the story should be kept in the movie script especially since the story is semi-autobiographical. In my opinion, people need to get over themselves and realize there are gay men and women in all corners of the world, in all sorts of professions, and the fact that some want to give a good home life to a child, and have the means and desire to do so, is a good thing.
Anyway, the movie is touching and fun to watch.