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In the first decade of the new millennium, with advances
in global technology overtaking the sovereignty of human compassion,
Richard Martin (Sam Neill) buys a gift, a new NDR-114 robot. The product
is named Andrew (Robin Williams) by the youngest of the family's children.
Andrew, a robot, (played by Robin Williams) discovers the intricacies of
life and love, and what it truly means to be a human being, in the motion
picture Bicentennial Man. Hallie Kate Eisenberg also stars.
Touchstone ../../pictures/Columbia Pictures' Bicentennial Man
follows the life and times of Andrew, a robot purchased as a household
appliance programmed to perform menial tasks. As Andrew begins to
experience emotions and creative thought, the Martin family soon discovers
they don't have an ordinary robot.
Bicentennial Man spans two centuries, during which it is
the goal of a single individual to learn all he might about the
intricacies of humanity, life and love. Through his efforts Andrew, a
popular robot model, teaches as much as he learns. He shows the world to
open its eyes and its heart to receive any being with enough compassion to
ask for acceptance.
Touchstone Pictures and Columbia Pictures present A 1492
Pictures Production in association with Laurence Mark Productions and
Radiant Productions, Bicentennial Man. Directed by Chris Columbus, from a
screenplay by Nicholas Kazan, the film is based upon the short story by
Isaac Asimov and the novel The Positronic Man by Isaac Asimov and Robert
Silverberg. The film is produced by Wolfgang Petersen, Gail Katz, Laurence
Mark, Neal Miller, Chris Columbus, Mark Radcliffe and Michael Barnathan.
Executive producer is Dan Kolsrud. Bicentennial Man is distributed by
Buena Vista Pictures Distribution.
Bicentennial Man, rated PG, opens nationwide on Friday,
Dec. 17.
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