A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
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.
Director: Steven Spielberg · Writer: Steven Spielberg
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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Trailer
Director
Steven Spielberg
Cast
Haley Joel Osment
David 
Jude Law
Gigolo Joe 
Frances O'Connor
Monica Swinton 
Sam Robards
Henry Swinton 
Jake Thomas
Martin Swinton 
William Hurt
Professor Hobby 
Ken Leung
Syatyoo-Sama 
Clark Gregg
Supernerd 
Kevin Sussman
Supernerd 
Tom Gallop
Supernerd 
Eugene Osment
Supernerd 
April Grace
Female Colleague User Reviews (4)
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 behind the plot, and the writing was mostly good. It almost felt like it was covering too much ground, and I felt there were a few lapses. I will mention only one, and try not to give anything away. There is a pivotal scene where John Hurt’s character is with the AI child David. It took a lot of effort to get David there, so what does the guy do/ he leaves David alone and unchaperoned. And the end of the movie turns on that. Why would he wander off like that except to serve the plot? Still, t…
The movie was actually pretty good. The ending sucked to me though.
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 friendly young man just as readily as dad "Henry" starts not to. Then, re-enter "Martin" (Jake Thomas) who turns out to be a rather malevolent and jealous lad who, with his fellow human friends, contrives a scenario that results in "David" becoming abandoned with only his talking "Teddy" for company. Now "David" had learned of the famous "Blue Fairy" who could turn him into a real boy, so convinced that his mother would love him again, sets out to track it down at the end of the Earth. His adventures…
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. Is this a meditation on what it means to be human? A cautionary tale about creating beings capable of love we cannot return? A Pinocchio story? A post-apocalyptic fable? The film tries to be all of these at once and commits to none of them, meandering through tonal shifts and narrative detours without ever finding its center. It's quite possibly the worst Spielberg narrative I've encountered; he seems unsure whether to honor Kubrick's darker instincts or impose his own sentimentality, and the …
