Wednesday, August 15, 2018

Artificial Intelligence : A.I. (2001)


Released June 29th in the US.
Filmed in California and New York.
The story : It is the future.
People have been creating adult robots to fill any and all voids.
But never a child robot , until now.
Monica and Henry are a married couple who have a young son , Martin.
Martin has been very ill for sometime and the odds do not look good for him.
Henry decides to help Monica cope by bringing her a new son , robot David.
The more time Monica spends around awkward David the more she takes a liking to him.
Finally she programs David to be her son.
Settling in with David , Monica gets news from Henry that their son Martin has recovered and can come home.
Right away young Martin has some ill fated feelings towards innocent David and makes things difficult for him.
But when David seems to have become a danger to Martin , Monica decides to ditch him.
David cannot handle the abandonment and believes that if he can become a real boy , Monica will finally love him back unconditionally.
Stars William Hurt , Frances OConnor , Sam Robards , Haley Joel Osment , Jake Thomas , Jude Law , Ashley Scott , April Grace , Matt Winston , Sabrina Grdevich , Theo Greenly , John Prosky , Enrico Colantoni , (voice) Robin Williams , (voice) Chris Rock , (voice) Meryl Streep , (voice) Ben Kingsley , Adrian Grenier , Michael Fishman , Mark Allan Staubach , Al Jourgensen
Directed by Steven Spielberg
Rated PG13
DRAMA/SCIFI

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