Rating: PG
Genre: Science Fiction
Theatrical Release: 12/17/1999(USA)
Release Date: 06/13/2000
SubTitles: English
Dubbed: French/English
Sound: 5.1
Run Time: 131 Minutes
Flags: Adult Language, Sexual Situations
Distributor/Studio: Walt Disney Video

If a robot spends enough time around humans, can he learn to become one of them? The Martin family purchases a domestic android as a servant and names him Andrew (Robin Williams). Andrew comes to know the man of the house as Sir (Sam Neill), his wife as Ma'am Wendy Crewson, and their daughter as Portia (Embeth Davidtz); before long, the Martins suspect that they do not have an ordinary robot on their hands. Andrew seems capable of expressing emotion and generating original thoughts, and the longer he stays with the Martins, the more strongly these human traits manifest themselves. Over the next 200 years, Andrew becomes less a machine and more a member of the family, until a mechanic (Oliver Platt) tells Andrew that he might be able to turn him into a human being. Based on a short story by renowned science fiction author Isaac Asimov (surprisingly, it's only the second Asimov story to be brought to the screen), Bicentennial Man was directed by Chris Columbus, who previously worked with Robin Williams on Mrs. Doubtfire.

~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

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Cast:
Robin Williams - Andrew
Sam Neill - Sir
Wendy Crewson - Ma'am
Embeth Davidtz - Little Miss / Portia
Oliver Platt - Rupert Burns
Hallie Kate Eisenberg - Little Miss, age 7
Stephen Root - Dennis Mansky
Lynne Thigpen - Female President
Bradley Whitford - Lloyd
Kiersten Warren - Galatea
John Michael Higgins - Bill Feingold
George D. Wallace - Male President

Production:
Chris Columbus - Director
Chris Columbus Gail Katz Laurence Mark Neal Miller Wolfgang Petersen Mark A. Radcliffe Michael Barnathan - Producer
James Horner - Composer
Neil Travis - Editor
Nicholas Kazan - Screen Writer
Geoff Hubbard Anne Kuljian James Tocci Darrell L. Wight Bill Taliaferro - Set Designer
Bruton Jones - Art Director
Mark Mansbridge - Art Director
William Hiney - Art Director
Paula DuPre Pesman - Associate Producer
Jane Jenkins - Casting
Janet Hirshenson - Casting
Phil Meheux - Cinematographer
Joseph G. Aulisi - Costume Designer
Dan Kolsrud - Executive Producer
David Sardi - First Assistant Director
Greg Cannom - Makeup Special Effects
Keith Vanderlaan - Makeup Special Effects
Norman Reynolds - Production Designer
Brian Sullivan - Second Unit Director Of Photography
Isaac Asimov - Short Story Author
Robert Shoup - Sound Editor
Nelson Stoll - Sound/Sound Designer
Randy Thom - Sound/Sound Designer
Dream Quest Images - Special Effects
Steve Johnson - Special Effects
James E. Price - Visual Effects Supervisor
Robert Silverberg - Book Author

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