My Favorite Martian is a 1999 science fiction comedy 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. It was directed by Donald Petrie and written by original-series creator John L. Greene, Sherri Stoner and Deanna Oliver. Creatures were created by Amalgamated Dynamics from designs by Jordu Schell. The film opens on Mars, showing the last moments of a Mars rover's mission. As the rover prepares to sample Martian rock, it "kicks the bucket." The mission controllers congratulate... themselves on a "successful" mission, while back on Mars the scene pans up from the dead rover to show a huge undiscovered Martian city. A spaceship is seen quickly rocketing from the city and accelerating into space. News producer Tim O'Hara , is fired for unwillingly "compromising" his boss's daughter, Brace Channing , during a live broadcast of the first Space Shuttle launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base. His assistant, the shy Lizzie , tries to comfort him, and it's apparent she has a secret crush on him.
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| Release date: | February 12, 1999 |
| Directed by: | Donald Petrie |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 94 Minutes |
| Producer: | Jerry Leider, Marc Toberoff, Robert Shapiro |
| Editor: | Malcolm Campbell |
| Music by: | John Debney |
| Cinematography: | Thomas E. Ackerman |
| Screenplay by: | Deanna Oliver, Sherri Stoner |
| Estimated budget: | $65,000,000 |
| Adapted from: | My Favorite Martian |
| Genre: | Science Fiction, Comedy |