My Favorite Martian is a 1999 comedy feature starring Christopher Lloyd, Jeff Daniels, Daryl Hannah, Elizabeth Hurley, Wallace Shawn and Ray Walston, based on the 1960s television series of the same name. It was directed by Donald Petrie and written by John L. Greene, Sherri Stoner and Deanna Oliver.
The film starts on Mars, looking at the near end of an American Mars rover's life and mission. As the rover prepares to sample Martian rock, it "kic...
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My Favorite Martian is a 1999 comedy feature starring Christopher Lloyd, Jeff Daniels, Daryl Hannah, Elizabeth Hurley, Wallace Shawn and Ray Walston, based on the 1960s television series of the same name. It was directed by Donald Petrie and written by John L. Greene, Sherri Stoner and Deanna Oliver.
The film starts on Mars, looking at the near end of an American Mars rover's life and mission. As the rover prepares to sample Martian rock, it "kicks the bucket", the scene ending with mission controllers congratulating themselves on a "successful" mission, the scene panning up to what one believes to be a huge, fictional, never-before-discovered Martian city, a rusty spaceship quickly coming into view and accelerating off into space then.
The story then centers on news producer Tim O'Hara (Jeff Daniels), fired for unwillingly "compromising" his boss' daughter Brace Channing (Elizabeth Hurley) during a live transmission of the first Space Shuttle launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base....
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