Conscious A.I Robots: Should They Have Rights?

Bicentennial Man - Official® Trailer [HD] - 1999

Release Date: December 17, 1999

From "Mrs Doubtfire" director (Chris Columbus) comes this original, funny and heartwarming film. When Richard Martin (Sam Neill - The Horse Whisperer, Jurassic Park) introduces a robot named Andrew (Robin Williams - Jacob the Liar, Good Will Hunting) to the family, nobody expects anything more than an ordinary household appliance. But this is no ordinary robot! Andrew is a unique machine with real emotions, a sense of humour and a burning curiosity to discover what it really means to be human. Over the course of his service with the Martins, spanning two hundred years and several generations, Andrew discovers much about the intricacies of life and love, and finds that there are many things he can teach as well as learn. Will Andrew ever achieve his goal to become human and possess the freedom to pursue a life of his own? And will he be prepared to pay the cost?

Cast: Robin Williams, Embeth Davidtz, Sam Neill, Oliver Platt, Kiersten Warren, Wendy Crewson, Hallie Kate Eisenberg, Lindze Letherman, Angela Landis, John Michael Higgins, Bradley Whitford, Stephen Root, Lynne Thigpen

Studio: Columbia Pictures
Director: Chris Columbus
Screenwriter: Isaac Asimov, Robert Silverberg, Nicholas Kazan
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy