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Bicentennial Man is a american film of genre Drama directed by Chris Columbus released in USA on 17 december 1999 with Robin Williams
Bicentennial Man (1999)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 17 december 1999
Length 2h12
Directed by Chris Columbus
OriginUSA
Themes Cooking films, Films about slavery, Medical-themed films, Films based on science fiction novels, Films set in the future, Robot films
Rating69%
Bicentennial Man is a 1999 Canadian-American science fiction family comedy-drama film starring Robin Williams, Sam Neill, Embeth Davidtz (in a dual role), Wendy Crewson, and Oliver Platt. Based on the novel The Positronic Man, co-written by Isaac Asimov and Robert Silverberg, which is itself based on Asimov's original novella titled The Bicentennial Man, the plot explores issues of humanity, slavery, prejudice, maturity, intellectual freedom, conformity, sex, love, and mortality. The film, a co-production between Touchstone Pictures and Columbia Pictures, was directed by Chris Columbus. The title comes from the main character existing to the age of two hundred years, and Asimov's novella was published in the year that the U.S. had its bicentennial.
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The NDR series robot "Andrew" (Robin Williams) is introduced in 2005 into the Martin family home to perform housekeeping and maintenance duties. The family's reactions range from acceptance and curiosity, to outright rejection, and deliberate vandalism by their surly older daughter, Grace (Lindze Letherman), which leads to the discovery that Andrew can both identify emotions and reciprocate in kind. When Andrew accidentally breaks a figurine belonging to "Little Miss" Amanda (Hallie Kate Eisenberg), he carves a replacement out of wood. The family is astonished by this creativity and “Sir” Richard Martin (Sam Neill) takes Andrew to his manufacturer, to inquire if all the robots are like him. The CEO of the company sees this development as a problem and wishes to scrap Andrew. Angered, Martin takes Andrew home and allows him to pursue his own development, encouraging Andrew to educate himself in the humanities.Actors
Robin Williams
(Andrew)
Sam Neill
(Sir)
Embeth Davidtz
(Little Miss / Portia)
Oliver Platt
(Rupert Burns)
Wendy Crewson
(Ma'am)
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