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A.I. - Artificial
Intelligence
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Release
Date: 21st September 2001
Distributor: Warner Brothers
Certificate: 12
Starring: Frances O'Connor, Haley
Joel Osment, Jude Law, William Hurt
Director: Steven
Spielberg
Running Time:
145
mins
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| It's
the mid-21st century a time when natural resources are limited and technology
is advancing at an astronomical pace. Where you live is monitored; what
you eat is engineered; and the person serving you is not a person at all.
It's artificial. Gardening, housekeeping, companionship, there is a robot
for every need. Except love. Man has developed a new type of computer that
is aware of its own existence. This computer has been utilized to help man
cope with the melting of the polar ice caps and the submerging of many of
its coastal cities. This form of artificial intelligence has also been used
in robots. But emotion is the last, controversial frontier in robot evolution.
Robots are seen as sophisticated appliances; they're not supposed to have
feelings. But with so many parents not yet approved to have children, the
possibilities are amazing. And when one company, Cybertronics Manufacturing,
creates what it thinks is a solution, one such android, a young boy is about
to take an incredible journey to find out if he can ever be anything more
than a machine. His name is David A robotic boy, the first programmed to
love, David is adopted as a test case by a Cybertronics employee (Sam Robards)
and his wife (Frances O'Connor), whose own terminally ill child has been
cryogenically frozen until a cure can be found. Though he gradually becomes
their child, with all the love and stewardship that entails, a series of
unexpected circumstances make this life impossible for David. Without final
acceptance by humans or machines, and armed only with Teddy, his supertoy
teddy bear and protector, David embarks on a journey to discover where he
truly belongs, uncovering a world in which the line between robot and machine
is both terrifyingly vast and profoundly thin. |
| Warner
Bros and DreamWorks have got together to present this Amblin/Stanley Kubrick
production 'AI'. The screenplay, which was written by Spielberg, is based
on a screen story by Ian Watson and the short story by acclaimed science
fiction writer Brian Aldiss. The film was a long time project for the late
director Stanley Kubrick, who was working on the pre-production at the time
of his death. Kubrick and Spielberg had become such good friends over the
years, that Spielberg was happy to continue with the production. Jan Harlan,
Stanley Kubrick's long-time executive producer, is also on board as one
of AI's executive producers. Along with Oscar winning composer John Williams
and makeup effects supremo Stan Winston, whose filmography includes some
of the most ambitious and complex effects films of all time, the team that
created this film includes visual effects visionaries Dennis Muren and Scott
Farrar of Industrial Light and Magic, who supervised the film's groundbreaking
visual effects. |
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