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My Favorite Martian (1999)
Directed by Donald Petrie
“The martian has landed. There goes the neighborhood.”
Comedy, Family, Science Fiction · 1h 34m
Ambitious television reporter Tim O'Hara stumbles upon a martian whose spaceship has accidentally crashed on Earth. Thinking this is his ticket to a Pulitzer Prize, Tim makes plans to expose the martian, who, posing as Tim's Uncle Martin, takes human form and has plans of his own. In fact, all of Tim's efforts to divulge the truth are systematically thwarted by the resourceful alien, who ultimately recruits Tim to help him repair his ship for a return to Mars.
Cast
Christopher Lloyd
Jeff Daniels
Elizabeth Hurley
Daryl Hannah
Wallace Shawn
Christine Ebersole
Michael Lerner
Ray Walston
Shelley Malil
Jeremy Hotz
T.K. Carter
Dawn Maxey
Crew
- Director
- Donald Petrie
- Screenplay
- Sherri Stoner, Deanna Oliver
- Director of Photography
- Thomas E. Ackerman
- Original Music Composer
- John Debney
- Editor
- Malcolm Campbell
- Producer
- Jerry Leider, Marc Toberoff, Robert Shapiro
Details
- Release date
- 1999-02-11
- Runtime
- 1h 34m
- Genres
- Comedy, Family, Science Fiction
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Walt Disney Pictures, The Jerry Leider Company, Robert Shapiro Productions
- Budget
- $65,000,000
- Box office
- $36,850,101