One robot's 200 year journey to become an ordinary man.
Richard Martin buys a gift, a new NDR-114 robot. The product is named Andrew by the youngest of the family's children. "Bicentennial Man" follows the life and times of Andrew, a robot purchased as a household appliance programmed to perform menial tasks. As Andrew begins to experience emotions and creative thought, the Martin family soon discovers they don't have an ordinary robot.
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Contemporary, earnest, classical in form and contemplative.
- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- contemplativerelentless
- character-ledplot-driven
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- CinemaSerfon TMDB · Aug 20267/10
It's a bit of a linguistic faux-pas that gives their new android the name "Andrew" (Robin Williams) after it arrives at the home of "Sir" (Sam Neill), his wife (Wendy Crewson) and their two daughters. The younger of those is a little more engaged with this butler-cum-housekeeper but her sibling thinks it belongs on a scrapheap - sometimes with quite humorous results. As the family start to get used to their new gadget, though, they experience some surprising changes in attitudes and questions are raised about just what constitutes "humanity". He is sympathetic, creative, empathetic and those characteristics aren't wasted on the mother in whom he confides his desire for freedom. Isn't he happy? Why does he want to leave? Well "Sir" takes a bit of umbridge at this request but grants it - and so "Andrew" finds himself free to live his life as he sees fit whilst still remaining in contact with a family who are no less divided about him and his role than they were a generation (or two) ago. Meantime, he embarks on a quest to track down the other robots of his generation and that introduces him to scientist "Rupert" (Oliver Platt) who suggests that there are ways of changing his appearan
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Cast
- Robin WilliamsAndrew
- Embeth DavidtzLittle Miss / Portia
- Sam NeillSir
- Oliver PlattRupert Burns
- Kiersten WarrenGalatea Robotic / Human
- Wendy CrewsonMa'am
- Hallie EisenbergLittle Miss 7 yrs. old
- Lindze LethermanMiss 9 yrs. old
- Angela LandisMiss
- John Michael HigginsBill Feingold
Crew
- Chris ColumbusDirector
- Nicholas KazanScreenplay
- Robert SilverbergNovel
- Isaac AsimovNovel
- Phil MeheuxDirector of Photography
- James HornerOriginal Music Composer
- Neil TravisEditor
- Nicolas De TothEditor
- Mark RadcliffeProducer
- Michael BarnathanProducer
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