Home

Home is a 2015 American animated science fiction comedy film produced by DreamWorks Animation, loosely based on the 2007 children's book The True Meaning of Smekday. The film was directed by Tim Johnson, written by Tom J. Astle and Matt Ember, and stars the voices of Jim Parsons, Rihanna, Jennifer Lopez, and Steve Martin. The story relates the shared adventures of a friendly alien (Parsons) who is shunned by the rest of his kind, and a teenage girl (Rihanna) searching for her lost mother (Lopez) after they are separated during an invasion of Earth. The film premiered at the Boulder International Film Festival on March 7, 2015, and was released in theaters on March 27 by 20th Century Fox. Home was promoted with the release of a prequel short film, Almost Home, which was