I just watched this on NetFlix. Their version is very-very murky to look at. But more importantly, this version mentions that the boy's parents are alive and well, and recuperating in hospital. At the end of the film, after the army has defeated the Martians, his two adult friends put him to bed and all is well.
In the version I've grown up seeing a dozen times or more, the army seems to be losing the battle as the boy is running and running, looking for an escape. We have learned that his parents are dead at this point. He wakes up in his bed, realizing it was just a nightmare, until an actual spaceship does indeed crash exactly as it happened in his sleep. Now knowing how to beat the Martians, the boy happily climbs out his window to go save the world from the invaders.
In the version I've grown up seeing a dozen times or more, the army seems to be losing the battle as the boy is running and running, looking for an escape. We have learned that his parents are dead at this point. He wakes up in his bed, realizing it was just a nightmare, until an actual spaceship does indeed crash exactly as it happened in his sleep. Now knowing how to beat the Martians, the boy happily climbs out his window to go save the world from the invaders.
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