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BICENTENNIAL MAN

Robin Williams, Embeth Davidtz (1999, Touchstone, 131 mins., PG, also on DVD)

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Rated: PG; Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sci-fi; With: Embeth Davidtz and Robin Williams

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By Alice King

Williams plays a 21st-century robot who, amid his whirs and clatterings, discovers he has a heart -- or, rather, that he wants one. The android's 200-year world-spanning journey toward humanness (his humanity's evident from the start) proves blandly saccharine -- and a tad creepy. When the anatomically improved automaton returns to find his beloved Little Miss an old lady, he instead tries out the new equipment on her look-alike granddaughter. Ah, eternal love.

Posted Jun 16, 2000

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