Bicentennial Man

Bicentennial Man (1999)

  • 37% of critics liked it
    (95 reviews)

  • 58% of users liked it
    (337,585 ratings)

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… More

PG, 2 hr. 11 min.
Directed By
Chris Columbus
Written By
Nicholas Kazan
Genres
Drama, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Comedy
In Theaters
Dec 17, 1999 Wide
On DVD
Jan 15, 2002
Buena Vista Pictures

Critic Reviews

  • Jeff Strickler, Minneapolis Star Tribune

    Columbus lays on the sentimentality thickly, sometimes letting it get in the way of the storytelling. The longer the movie continues, the more overt he becomes in his emotional pandering.

  • Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail

    It's one thing to ask an audience to love a mechanical man, but quite another to love a mechanical performance.

  • Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune

    Bicentennial Man has heart, but lacks bite.

  • Joe Baltake, Sacramento Bee

    It's a step in the right direction for both its star and maker.

  • Tom Keogh, Film.com

    Part of the deep appeal of this film is its undercurrent of yearning beneath surface ironies.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • AJ V


    This movie sucks the life out of you, turning you into a robot. Seriously I am tired of all these robot movies where we're supposed to feel bad for them, try to make them more human, etc. And Williams is more than annoying trying to play one of these annoying robots. I… More

  • Michael E


    hands down, Robin Williams best film. the character Andrew is likable and you feel all the things he goes through, the pain joy and all other emotions. The film has a very touching story how he loves all the people he serves and how he feels pain for losing them and how he can't… More

  • Dead A


    You know when they keep inventing internal parts of a human body, that was pretty cheesy to me. This was 1999s movie, more than 10years have passed but still the scientist couldn't create a human. That's the truth of our life that we can't give <i>life</i>… More

  • James A


    Only bad things can happen when you make a Robin Williams sex Robit.

  • Dean M


    Average and dull robot film I ever seen in my life to know about a robot makes himself human discovers the following human traits. At the end of all his journeys and discoveries of human condition, the one thing that makes him human is that he can die. Ugh!

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