Maika:The Girl from Another Galaxy

[Available Sept. 6 on various digital platforms.] After a grieving 8-year-old Vietnamese boy (Lai Truòng Phù), who has a strained relationship with his financially struggling, widowed, cellphone repairman father (Ngòc Tuòng), loses his mother (Lai Truong Phu) to illness and his best friend (Khánh Nhur) has moved to Saigon in Hàm Tran's heartwarming, family-friendly, funny, touching, bittersweet, well-paced, 105-minute, sci-fi film adapted from a 1970s Czechoslovakian TV series and reminiscent of E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, he meets a sweet, purple-haired alien (Chu Dièp Anh and voiceover by Malea Emma Tjandrawidjaja) with awesome powers who has crashed to Earth during a meteor shower and helps her search for her comrade so that she can return home, and when bad guys (Dai Nghia, Huyme, et al.) endanger his new friend, he turns to a pudgy, asthmatic, spoiled rich kid (Tin Tin) to assist him.
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