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Bicentennial Man (1999)
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Reviews Counted:93
Fresh:35
Rotten:58
Average Rating:4.8/10
Consensus: Bicentennial Man is ruined by a bad script and ends up being dull and mawkish.
Runtime: 2 hrs 11 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Bicentennial Man follows the life and times of the title character, an android (Robin Williams) who is purchased as a household robot programmed to perform menial tasks. The Martin family quickly... Bicentennial Man follows the life and times of the title character, an android (Robin Williams) who is purchased as a household robot programmed to perform menial tasks. The Martin family quickly learn that they don't have an ordinary robot when Andrew begins to experience emotions and creative thought. In a story that spans two centuries, Andrew learns the intricacies of humanity, life, and love. -- © 1999 Touchstone Pictures [More]
Starring: Robin Williams, Embeth Davidtz, Sam Neill, Wendy Crewson
Starring: Robin Williams, Embeth Davidtz, Sam Neill, Wendy Crewson, Oliver Platt, Hallie Kate Eisenberg, Stephen Root, Lynne Thigpen, Bradley Whitford, Kiersten Warren, John Michael Higgins
Director: Chris Columbus
Director: Chris Columbus
Screenwriter: Nicholas Kazan
Story: Isaac Asimov, Robert Silverberg
Producer: Chris Columbus, Wolfgang Petersen, Michael Barnathan, Gail Katz, Neal Miller, Laurence Mark, Mark Radcliffe
Composer: James Horner
Reviews for Bicentennial Man
...nothing but a sappy, shameless, and morbid production that wastes talent and time in a script designed to line the bottom of a bird cage.
Robin Williams is a talented man in danger of becoming a habitual hack.
Click your red slippers Dorothy; here comes Holiday Ho-Ho-Hokum sprinkling with cheer, but devoid of pressing issues, Y2K fears, and anything closely resembling controversy.
This isn't a perfect movie, but it entertains and touches the heart, and it's certainly a big step up from Patch Adams.
If anyone's going to animate a machine, it might as well be Robin Williams.
In addition to its provocative dialogue, Bicentennial Man features some cute scenes of the future city.
Even though it takes too long to make some of its points, Bicentennial Man boasts thought-provoking ideas about the nature of humanity, the blessings and curses of emotions and the meaning of mortality.
By relegating the story to a disappointing level of superficiality and never attempting to venture more than skin-deep into some intriguing themes, Bicentennial Man comes across like recycled, diluted Star Trek.
Those who get a catch in the throat just thinking about Valentines Day might not mind slogging through this epic... Everyone else will emerge from "Bicentennial" feeling about 200 years older than they were when they went in.
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