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Critics call this film spinoff of the 1960s TV show about a Martian (Christopher Lloyd) who falls to Earth and befriends an earthling (Jeff Daniels) "loud and labored" (Kevin Thomas, the Los Angeles Times ). The film steamrollers viewers with a frenetic pace and loads of slapsticky special effects.
Almost everyone lavishes praise on the book, not minding the absurdities they find in the plot (such as the emergence of a 92-year-old trillionaire who befriends the brooding man).
He befriends a cocaine user doing hard time, then sermonizes about the idiocies of mandatory minimum sentences.
"Steve Forbes befriends a crippled child, predicts this Christmas will be 'the best ever.
Harrer not only teaches the Dalai Lama about radios and time zones but also befriends the "god king" and is apparently his sole source of informal contact and entertainment.