7 Popcorn boxes
Robin Williams and Sam Nell star in this science fiction tale about an android who is purchased by a family to help run the household and raise the children. He soon is curious about being human. he longs to be human, even though he outlives his original family, and realizes that being human will mean eventual death. The drive to feel and act human is just too desirous to him.
Williams does a good job in android make-up and costume. He also manages the transition from android to human well, as he slowly changes from metal man to biological human. The acting it good, and Nell and Wendy Crewson do fine work as the parents in the family. The costuming is very good, you believe that Williams is actually an android, though he is very recognizable as Robin Williams.
I'd watch it again. It's a sweet and slightly weird story. The ending is poignant.
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