1999 · drama · romance · sci-fi
Bicentennial Man
Directed by Chris Columbus2h 11m1999
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.
Our read: Bicentennial Man (1999) reads as a warm, steady, inventive drama · romance · sci-fi entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, steady, measured drama / romance, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, tender.
- warm
- inventive
- tender
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