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.
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Haley Joel Osment
David
Jude Law
Gigolo Joe
Frances O'Connor
Monica Swinton
Sam Robards
Henry Swinton
Jake Thomas
Martin Swinton
William Hurt
Prof. Hobby
Jack Angel
Teddy (voice)
Robin Williams
Dr. Know (voice)
Ben Kingsley
Specialist (voice)
Meryl Streep
Blue Mecha (voice)
Director
Steven Spielberg
Screenplay
Steven Spielberg
Tagline
"David is 11 years old. He weighs 60 pounds. He is 4 feet, 6 inches tall. He has brown hair. His love is real. But he is not."
Status
Released
Original Language
EN
Budget
$100,000,000
Revenue
$235,926,552
Production
Warner Bros. Pictures, DreamWorks Pictures, Amblin Entertainment, Stanley Kubrick Productions
Peter McGinn
May 8, 2021
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. In many respects I thought the movie was well made: the special effects, the deep thinking behi...
Andre Gonzales
April 14, 2023
The movie was actually pretty good. The ending sucked to me though.
CinemaSerf
November 28, 2023
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 love, to feel, to be... Initially very apprehensive, she gradually bonds with the curious and frien...
badelf
June 24, 2026
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 desperately needed. The screenplay wanders terribly, unable to decide what it wants to be or say...
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