News from Planet Mars(2016)

Name: News from Planet Mars
Director: Dominik Moll
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Released: Jul 22, 2016
Cast: François Damiens, Vincent Macaigne, Veerle Baetens, Jeanne Guittet

Kino Lorber

1h 41m
- Comedy
- Drama

Release Date: Jul 22, 2016

Philippe Mars is a pleasant 40-something whose meeting with a psychotic college friend who is in search of love profoundly changes his life.

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Release Details

Original Release | Jul 22, 2016 | Limited

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Box Office Results

2025-01-31T12:07:16.239Z

Results

Opening Weekend US & Canada:
$24
Total US & Canada:
$310
Total International
$77,822
Total Worldwide:
$78,132

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Director & Top Cast

Dominik Moll
Director

François Damiens
Philippe Mars

Vincent Macaigne
Jérôme

Veerle Baetens
Chloé

Jeanne Guittet
Sarah Mars

Technical Specifications

Aspect Ratio: 2.35 : 1

Other Details

Country of Origin: France, Belgium

Language: French

Summaries

Storyline

Philippe Mars is a reasonable man in an unreasonable world. He's trying to be a good father, a kind ex-husband, a nice colleague, an understanding sibling - But the planets have not been exactly aligned in his favor lately. With his son turning into a hardcore vegan, his daughter into a pathological overachiever and his sister selling oversized paintings of their naked parents, it seems to our ever-so prudent Philippe that everyone around him is starting to behave more and more erratically - And when Jérôme, a work colleague whose insanity is contagious, arrives on the scene, Philippe's life will career utterly out of control. — Happy_Evil_Dude In Paris, the forty-nine-year-old computer engineer Philippe Mars is a good and respectful man; however, he is not respected. When his abusive ex-wife needs to go to Brussels, she leaves their seventeen-year-old daughter Sarah Mars and thirteen-year-old son Grégoire "Greg" Mars with their dirty clothes without any previous note. Both teenagers are dysfunctional, and Greg is fanatic vegetarian now and the unrealistic Sarah expects to have a great job after graduation. Philippe's boss explores and asks him to absorb the work of the unstable and psychotic Jérôme despite Phillipe is overloaded. When Jérôme has a breakdown in the office, he throws a machete cutting a piece of Phillipe's ear that goes on surgery for re-implanting. He visits the art gallery of his sister Fabienne "Xanaé" Mars and sees that she is selling paintings of his parents naked with exposed genitals to make money. But soon his life turns upside-down when Jérôme flees from the psychiatric hospital and seeks shelter at his apartment. Phillippe is incapable to say no to him; The crazy co-worker brings his crush from the institution, Chloé, to stay in his apartment. Soon Xanaé leaves her annoying dog without his permission in his apartment. The chaos in his life forces Philippe to change his attitude towards life. — Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil