Mars Needs Moms

Mars Needs Moms (2011)

Timing: 1:28 (88 min)

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All about film

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Actors and characters

Release date

2011-03-09

Country

United States

Production

Walt Disney Pictures, ImageMovers Digital

Genre

Adventure, Animation, Family

Budget

$150 000 000

Revenue

$39 000 000

Website

http://disney.go.com/disneypictures/marsneedsmoms/#home

Director

Simon Wells

Actors

Seth Green, Joan Cusack, Dan Fogler, Breckin Meyer, Elisabeth Harnois, Tom Everett Scott, Mindy Sterling, Julene Renee, Raymond Ochoa, Robert Ochoa
All actors and roles (10)

Scenario

Wendy Wells

Producer

Robert Zemeckis, Jack Rapke, Steven J. Boyd, Steve Starkey

Operator

Robert Presley

Composer

John Powell

Artist

Audition

Scot Boland, Victoria Burrows

Editing

Wayne Wahrman
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• Berkeley Breathed’s book "Mars Needs Moms," on which the film "Mars Needs Moms" is based, came about after a quarrel between his wife and son. The main character is named Milo in both the book and the film, just like Breathed’s son.
• Here's what Breathed himself says: "The movie wouldn't exist if, on August 10, 2006, there hadn't been a half-eaten plate of cauliflower left on the Breathed's table. Young Milo, age 5, threw a tantrum and yelled something terrible at his mother, bringing her to tears. I had to explain to my screaming son what he would feel if his mother, whom he supposedly didn't love, was suddenly taken away – I made it up on the spot – by Martians! That night, I wrote the book."
• Magical digital technologies allowed the 35-year-old actor (Seth Green) to play a 9-year-old boy (Mylo).
• Every day the actors dressed in the same clothes. The same outfits (a black tight-fitting suit), hairstyles (hair swept back to keep it off their faces) and makeup (black dots placed in specific locations). All the actors wore identical black tight-fitting suits, but each had patches of a certain color to avoid confusion. Seth’s was burgundy, Mindy’s was lilac, and Elizabeth’s was green.
• Each black suit has a red vertical stripe on the right side, a green vertical stripe on the left side, and about 65 sensors placed in specifically designated areas. These markers are intended to help the controlled and static cameras.
• The Martian language was the result of the actors’ collective creativity. They invented it directly during the voice recording process.