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John Cusack ("High Fidelity") has agreed to star in "The Martian Child," a sci-fi film adapted from a story by David Gerrold. Nick Cassavetes ("The Notebook") will direct. Cusack will play a science fiction writer who adopts a six-year-old boy who believes himself to be a Martian.
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Dream husband John Cusack could star with a houseplant, and the houseplant would get raves for being likable. But hey, he hastwo movies coming out in which he pulls off an even more difficult feat. In both Martian Child and Grace Is Gone, Cusack plays a single dad. As in... Read On
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John Cusack talks about working with Diane Lane on the romantic comedy, "Must Love Dogs." Cusack ... discusses working with writer/director Gary David Goldberg, improvisation, "The Martian Child," and his Edgar Casey project.
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It consists mainly of two-person scenes, in which John Cusack has long conversations with a largely unresponsive kid. Now Cusack is a charming actor. If anybody could have pulled that off, he could have. But imagine, say, sitting in a park listening to a father talk for a full hour, just chattering away, trying to engage a child, who stands there with a blank expression. Does that sound entertaining?
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Cusack is currently in Vancouver filming the Menno Meyjes' science-fiction drama The Martian Child. He plays a widowed father of an adopted young boy, who is convinced that the boy is from Mars. Later this year, Cusack will ... film The Contract. The Bruce Beresford directed thriller co-stars Morgan Freeman and will be filmed in Bulgaria.
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Cusack first stars in "Martian Child," which opened Friday, as a science fiction writer who adopts a shy, eccentric boy. Next month comes "Grace is Gone," a Sundance Film Festival hit in which the actor portrays a former soldier who delays telling his daughters that their soldier-mother has died in Iraq by taking them on a road trip.
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