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AI: Artificial Intelligence

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• Sci-fi
• Adventure

• 2001
• Steven Spielberg
• 139 mins
• 12

Summary

Science-fiction fantasy drama directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Jude Law and Haley Joel Osment. In the future, a prototype robot child called David is programmed with emotions and delivered to the Swinton family. But can David replace the sick son that the family has had cryogenically frozen until his terminal illness can be cured?

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A star rating of 4 out of 5.

Kilmeny Fane-Saunders

Steven Spielberg takes the story of Pinocchio, gives it a daring twist and decks it out with terrific special effects in this ambitious, dark-toned fable for the new millennium. Haley Joel Osment (The Sixth Sense) plays an android child, programmed to love and allocated to a couple whose own critically ill son has been cryogenically frozen. When the real son is healed, the robot boy is cast out into a brutal world that doesn't want him. In a difficult role, Osment proves once again what a fine young actor he is, while Jude Law gives a showy performance as his guide-cum-protector in the dangerous land of mechanised outcasts. The Brian W Aldiss story on which the film is based caught Stanley Kubrick's imagination more than 20 years ago, yet even before his death he had commented that Spielberg would be the ideal director for the project. There's a nod to Spielbergian cuteness in the shape of a talking teddy bear who accompanies the robot, but this is no feel-good romp in the ET vein - it is one of the director's bleakest works and Osment's desperate quest to become a "real" boy and win back the love of his human mother is a disturbing one.

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7.2/10

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Cast

rolenameDavidHaley Joel OsmentGigolo JoeJude LawMonica SwintonFrances O'ConnorLord Johnson-JohnsonBrendan GleesonHenry SwintonSam RobardsProf Hobby (the Visionary)William HurtMartin SwintonJake ThomasSyatoo-SamaKen LeungSpecialistBen KingsleyDr KnowRobin WilliamsBlue mechaMeryl StreepComedianChris RockTeddyJack AngelGigolo JaneAshley Scott

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rolenameDirectorSteven Spielberg

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Theatrical distributor

Warner Bros

Released on

2001-09-21

Languages

English

Guidance

Some violence.

Available on

video, DVD and Blu-ray

Formats

Colour

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