Rating: PG
Genre:
Science Fiction
Theatrical Release: 12/17/1999(USA)
Release Date: 06/13/2000
SubTitles: English
Dubbed: French/English
Sound: 5.1
Run Time: 131 Minutes
Flags: Adult Language, Sexual Situations
Distributor/Studio: Walt Disney Video
If a robot spends enough time around humans, can he learn to become one of them? The Martin family purchases a domestic android as a servant and names him Andrew (
Robin Williams). Andrew comes to know the man of the house as Sir (
Sam Neill), his wife as Ma'am
Wendy Crewson, and their daughter as Portia (
Embeth Davidtz); before long, the Martins suspect that they do not have an ordinary robot on their hands. Andrew seems capable of expressing emotion and generating original thoughts, and the longer he stays with the Martins, the more strongly these human traits manifest themselves. Over the next 200 years, Andrew becomes less a machine and more a member of the family, until a mechanic (
Oliver Platt) tells Andrew that he might be able to turn him into a human being. Based on a short story by renowned science fiction author
Isaac Asimov (surprisingly, it's only the second
Asimov story to be brought to the screen),
Bicentennial Man was directed by
Chris Columbus, who previously worked with
Robin Williams on
Mrs. Doubtfire.
~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
;)
