News producer, Tim O'Hara gets himself fired for unwillingly compromising his bosses' daughter during a live transmission. A little later, he witnesses the crashing of a small Martian spacecraft, realizing his one-time chance of delivering a story that will rock the earth. Since Tim took the original but scaled-down spaceship with him, the Martian follows him to retrieve it.

• Walt Disney Pictures
• Christopher Lloyd
• Jeff Daniels
• Elizabeth Hurley
• Daryl Hannah
• Wallace Shawn
• Christine Ebersole
• Michael Lerner
• Ray Walston