My Favorite Martian (film)

My Favorite Martian is a 1999 comic science fiction film starring Christopher Lloyd, Jeff Daniels, Daryl Hannah, Elizabeth Hurley, Wallace Shawn and Ray Walston, based on the 1960s television series of the same name in which Walston starred. It was directed by Donald Petrie and written by Sherri Stoner and Deanna Oliver, based on the television series created by John L. Greene. Creatures were created by Amalgamated Dynamics from designs by Jordu Schell. The film, produced on a budget of 65 million, was a major box office flop after grossingmillion domestically.

On Earth, news producer Tim OHara Jeff Daniels is fired for unwillingly compromising his bosss daughter, reporter Brace Channing Elizabeth Hurley, during a live broadcast of the first Space Shuttle launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base. His assistant, the shy Lizzie Daryl Hannah, tries to comfort him, and it is apparent she has a crush on him. Later, Tim witnesses a small Martian spacecraft crash landing. Realizing his chance to deliver a story that will rock the Earth, he brings Brace to show her the ship. Nearby, its only occupant Christopher Lloyd hides in the bushes. Tim takes the nowshrunken spaceship home with him, with the Martian following him to retrieve it. Tim knocks the Martian out, the Martians suit, named Zoot, comes alive and knocks Tim out the Martian quickly comes to and disguises himself to look like Tim and ends up kissing Lizzie when she visits.When Tim confronts the Martian the next morning, he finds out that a small device called an electron accelerator, which powers the control systems of the ship, is damaged beyond repair and the Martian needs Tims help to find a replacement. The Martian takes the name Uncle Martin and explores the city with Tim, unaware that they are being watched by SETI, which discovered DNA left by Martin while hiding out at Tims. While exploring Tims neighborhood, Martin tells him about a friend of his named Neenert, one of his planets most gifted Martian scientists, who came to Earth in 1964 but never came back. Brace is captured by the SETI gang as she is mistaken by them as an alien. ........

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