Bicentennial Man

Bicentennial Man

1999 · 131 min · EN · PG · 7.3 (3,926 votes)
Dir. Chris Columbus · Starring Robin Williams, Embeth Davidtz, Sam Neill, Oliver Platt, Kiersten Warren, Wendy Crewson · Music James Horner

One robot's 200 year journey to become an ordinary man.

DramaRomanceScience Fiction

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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This film offers a deeply emotional and reflective journey through time, exploring what it means to be human. It's a poignant, bittersweet meditation on identity, love, and the relentless march of progress, wrapped in a classic sci-fi aesthetic that encourages introspection.

hopefulmelancholicreflectivebittersweetpoignantslow-burnhumanist sci-ficlassic speculative fictionsentimental dramahumanityidentityevolutionmortalitylove
androidbased on novel or bookfreedomhologramfuturisticrobotbased on short storyjourney22nd century2040s23rd century2060s
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