Artificial Intelligence: AI (2001)

Director:

Steven Spielberg

Writers (WGA):

Brian Aldiss (short story "Supertoys Last All Summer Long")
Ian Watson (screen story)

Release Date:

29 June 2001 (USA)

Genre:

Adventure | Drama | Sci-Fi

Tagline:

David is 11 years old. He weighs 60 pounds. He is 4 feet, 6 inches tall. He has brown hair. His love is real. But he is not.

Plot:

A highly advanced robotic boy longs to become "real" so that he can regain the love of his human mother.

Plot Keywords:

Future | Fairy | Forest | Artificial Intelligence | Fairy Tale

Awards:

Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 12 wins & 40 nominations

US TV Schedule:

Mon. Dec. 7

2:00 PM

HBO

Cast

Haley Joel Osment	...	David
Frances O'Connor	...	Monica Swinton
Sam Robards	...	Henry Swinton
Jake Thomas	...	Martin Swinton
Jude Law	...	Gigolo Joe
William Hurt	...	Prof. Hobby
Ken Leung	...	Syatyoo-Sama
Clark Gregg	...	Supernerd
Kevin Sussman	...	Supernerd
Tom Gallop	...	Supernerd
Eugene Osment	...	Supernerd
April Grace	...	Female Colleague
Matt Winston	...	Executive
Sabrina Grdevich	...	Secretary
Theo Greenly	...	Todd

Also Known As:

A.I. (USA) (working title (promotional title))
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (USA) (poster title)
A.I.: Artificial Intelligence (USA) (alternative spelling)
A.I. - Inteligência Artificial (Brazil) (Portugal) [pt]
A.I. artificiell intelligens (Finland: Swedish title) (Sweden) [sv]
A.I. inteligencia artificial (Argentina) (Colombia) [es]
Искусственный разум (Russia) [ru]
A. I. - Mesterséges értelem (Hungary) [hu]
A.I. (Japan) [ja]
A.I. - Künstliche Intelligenz (Germany) [de]
A.I. - Tekoäly (Finland) [fi]
A.I. Inteligencia Artificial (Spain) [es]
A.I. Kunstig intelligens (Denmark) [da]
A.I. Umelá inteligence (Czech Republic) [cs]
A.I. Umelá inteligencia (Slovakia) [sk]
A.I. intelligence artificielle (France) [fr]
A.I. intelligenza artificiale (Italy) [it]
A.I.: Intelligence artificielle (Canada: French title) [fr]
A.I.: Tehniti noimosyni (Greece) [el]
Umjetna inteligencija (Croatia) [hr]
Yapay zeka (Turkey: Turkish title) [tr]

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for some sexual content and violent images.

Runtime:

146 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

DTS-ES | Dolby Digital EX | SDDS

Certification:

Malaysia:U | Argentina:13 | Australia:M | Brazil:Livre | Canada:14A | Finland:K-15 | France:U | Germany:12 (bw) | Hong Kong:IIA | Iceland:12 | Ireland:12 | Netherlands:12 | Norway:15 | Philippines:PG-13 | Portugal:M/12 | Singapore:PG | South Korea:12 | Spain:7 | Sweden:11 (re-rated) | Switzerland:12 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:12 (canton of Vaud) | UK:12 | USA:PG-13

Filming Locations:

Gresham, Oregon, USA

Company:

Warner Bros. Pictures

Trivia:

The list of words that Monica Swinton says to David to make him capable of love was the original list, written by Stanley Kubrick.

Goofs:

Continuity: One of the boys gets out of the swimming pool twice in different shots.

Quotes:

Gigolo Joe: Miss Bevins, it's Joe, at your service. I've been counting the seconds since last we met. Have you been crying, Samantha? I found a tear.
The Murderer: Hey Joe, what do you know? How many seconds has it been since the last time you two were together?
Gigolo Joe: 255,133.
The Murderer: Goodbye, Sam, and never forget: you killed me first.
Gigolo Joe: I'm in bad trouble.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Fei ying (2004)

Soundtrack:

What About Us

Spielberg's cinematic tribute to Kubrick

It is fitting that A.I., Steven Spielberg's monument on film to Stanley Kubrick, is a shoe-in for Best Picture in 2001. A.I. is cinematically beautiful, and tells a wrenching emotional story of a child's quest for maternal love.

In A.I., Spielberg masterfully adopts Kubrick's hard, bare-essentials style of direction, letting the photography tell the story, rather than the dialogue. This style allowed Kubrick to develop an enormous scope of ideas, stories and emotions in his movies. But it often left casual movie goers behind. He had difficulty finding the right treatment for A.I. so he handed the project to Spielberg before Kubrick's death last year.

Spielberg textures A.I. with obvious dollops of his own soft-as-whipped-cream touch. It is Spielberg's great skill that blends the two styles together with mesmerizing results. This blend allows the emotional story of a young robotic boy to come to life, and Kubrick fans will be able to enjoy one last film made by the master -- with the respectful help of another great artist.

The Kubrickian style demands the very best from actors, who must appear unapologetically real, and must, in long sequences with no dialogue, convey strong feelings and emotions. The A.I cast, especially lead actor Haley Joel Osment, meet every measure of the demands. Despite his youth, Osment will surely receive a nomination for Best Actor.

A.I. will rank high among the best movies ever made, but viewers should come prepared for an intense emotional and intellectual work-out. If you want to take in a quick flick to escape life for a couple of hours, this is not your movie. If you want to explore the cinematic depth of a master artist like Spielberg, A.I. will take you places you've never been before.