| | | 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.
Features: DVD, Full Picture Aspect Ratio, Dolby Digital (5.1)
In a future world of runaway global warming and awe-inspiring scientific advances, humans share every aspect of their lives with sophisticated companion robots called Mechas. But when an advanced prototype robot child named David (Haley Joel Osment) is programmed to show unconditional love, his human family isn't prepared for the consequences. Suddenly, David is on his own in a strange and dangerous world. Befriended by a streetwise Mecha (Jude Law), David embarks on a spectacular quest to discover the startling secret of his own identity.
"Steven Spielberg's A.I. is extraordinary." Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly
"A.I. is unmistakably the work of a real filmmaker." Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
"The film is filled with visual wonders and astonishing special effects." Roger Ebert, Ebert & Roeper And The Movies
"The boldest movie of Spielberg's remarkable career." Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press
Editor's Note
A.I. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE is the story of David (Haley Joel Osment), the first mecha (a futuristic term for a mechanized human being) designed with the ability to love. A couple whose son is in a coma "adopts" David to help them recover from their loss. Naturally, things do not go as planned, and David is forced to leave the mother (Frances O'Connor) he's been "imprinted" to love, and make his way in the world. Traveling with Teddy, a hi-tech stuffed bear, David escapes the Flesh Fair, where angry humans destroy mechas to "purge artificiality," and unexpectedly befriends Gigolo Joe (Jude Law in a wry performance), a robot designed to pleasure women. Joe agrees to help David in his quest to become human. Director Stanley Kubrick originally developed A.I., at one point asking Spielberg to direct it. When Kubrick passed away, Spielberg took the reins. Using a treatment and thousands of drawings commissioned by Kubrick, Spielberg wrote his own screenplay (his first since 1979's CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND). Osment, perhaps the only pre-teen actor who can effectively convey existential angst, gives a marvelous performance, helping Spielberg create a gorgeous futuristic fairy tale that questions the very nature of what we call life.
| Features | And Much More! | | Storyboard Sequences | | Production Drawings | | Hundreds Of Photos Approved By Steven Spielberg Exclusively For This DVD Release | | Interviews With Lucasfilm's Industrial Light & Magic Special Effects Group About The Seamless Blending Of Animation And Live Action | | A Visit To Skywalker Ranch | | Theatrical Trailers | | Interviews With Steven Spielberg, Haley Joel Osment And Jude Law | | An In-Depth Look At The Development And Creation Of The Robotics Of A.I. | | A Behind-The-Scenes Visit To Stan Winston Studios With Early Footage Of Tests For "Teddy" And Other Robots | | A Fascinating Documentary On Bringing The Vision Of A.I. To The Screen |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Dreamworks (Universal) |
| Release Date: 2/13/2007 |
| Running Time: 145 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 2001 | | Catalog ID: 89885 | | UPC: 00667068988529 | | Number of Discs: 2 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English, French Dubbed | | Available Subtitles: English, French, Spanish | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | 4:3 |
| Cast & Crew
| Awards |
Oscar (2002) | | | John Williams, Nominee, Best Music, Original Score | |
Golden Globe (2002) | | | Steven Spielberg, Nominee, Best Director | | | John Williams, Nominee, Best Music, Original Score | | | Jude Law, Nominee, Best Supporting Actor |
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| | Professional Reviews | Entertainment Weekly
"...Extraordinary....Fabulous....A.I. Achieves moments of quickening sci-fi grandeur..." -- Rating: A- 06/29/2001 p.109-10Variety
"...[A] deeply thoughtful and thoroughly fascinating film....Osment again proves himself a superb young actor..." 06/25/2001 p.19-26 Rolling Stone
"...A.I. is unmistakably the work of a real filmmaker....A.I. is a film of visual astonishments..." 07/19/2001 p.54-5 USA Today
"...A.I. touches the emotions....What a thrill, for example, to see Law's body movements recall Jack Haley's Tin Man in THE WIZARD OF OZ while delivering a performance just as great..." 06/29/2001 p.1E New York Times
"...A.I. is the best fairy tale -- the most disturbing, complex and intellectually challenging boy's adventure story -- Mr. Spielberg has made..." 06/29/2001 p.E1 Los Angeles Times
"...The filmmaking, as expected, is quite wonderful..." 06/29/2001 p.1 Sight and Sound
"...It restates HAL's case with commendable vehemence and a kaleidoscopic ingenuity..." 10/01/2001 p.38-9 Salon.com 8 of 10
...[Osment] shows a complexity and subtlety here that would be astonishing in a far more experience actor. Osment isn't just a cute kid, he's an actor projecting an idealized and artifical image of what a cute child is suppossed to be...
Time Magazine 9 of 10
The film is bold, rigorous and sentimental by turns, and often all at once... Even when A.I. meanders or stumbles, it is fascinating as a wedding of two disparate auteurs... - Jess Cagle
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