A.I. Artificial Intelligence

David, a robotic boy—the first of his kind programmed to love—is adopted as a test case by a Cybertronics employee and his wife. Though he gradually becomes their child, a series of unexpected circumstances make this life impossible for David.

Cast

Haley Joel Osment

as David

Jude Law

as Gigolo Joe

Frances O'Connor

as Monica Swinton

Sam Robards

as Henry Swinton

Jake Thomas

as Martin Swinton

William Hurt

as Professor Hobby

Ken Leung

as Syatyoo-Sama

Clark Gregg

as Supernerd

Kevin Sussman

as Supernerd

Tom Gallop

as Supernerd

Reviews

Peter McGinn

I bought this on DVD many years ago, convinced I had never seen it. I finally got around to watching it, and it wasn’t until I reached the robot demolition circus (words I bet I have never seen in the same sentence before) that I realized I had watched this movie before. That is a memorable sequence...

Andre Gonzales

The movie was actually pretty good. The ending sucked to me though....

CinemaSerf

With their son "Martin" supposedly out for the count, "Henry" (Sam Robards) procures a solution for his wife "Monica" (Frances O'Connor) in the form of "David" (Haley Joel Osment). He is a state of the art android. Not robotic in function like previous models, but an adaptive model that can learn to...

badelf

The coincidence of the release year matching 2001: A Space Odyssey feels almost too on-the-nose, especially given that this was originally Stanley Kubrick's project before his death, eventually passed to Steven Spielberg. One wonders if Kubrick would have brought the clarity of vision that this film...

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