Artificial Intelligence 🎥 2001 Movie Info

Plot Summary

In the 22nd century, rising sea levels caused by global warming have wiped out coastal cities and altered the world’s climate. With the human population in decline, advanced nations have created humanoid robots called mechas to fulfill various roles in society. In Madison, New Jersey, David, an 11-year-old prototype mecha child capable of experiencing love, is given to Henry Swinton and his wife, Monica, whose son, Martin, is in suspended animation after contracting a rare disease. Initially uncomfortable with David, Monica eventually warms to him and activates his imprinting protocol.

Touched by his love for her, she introduces him to Teddy, Martin’s old robotic teddy bear, and the two become friends. After Martin is unexpectedly cured of his disease and brought home, he jealously goads David into cutting off a piece of Monica’s hair. That night, David enters his adoptive parents’ room, but as Monica turns over, the scissors accidentally poke her in the eye. While Henry attends to her wounds, Teddy picks up the lock of hair from the floor and places it in his pocket. During a pool party, one of Martin’s friends pokes David with a knife, triggering his self-protection programming. David grabs Martin, causing both of them to fall into the pool.

While Martin is rescued, David is accused of endangering others. Frightful of David’s reactions and fearing for his family’s safety, Henry convinces Monica to return David to his creators for destruction. En route, she instead spares David by abandoning him in a forest full of scrap metal and obsolete mechas, telling him to avoid people and find solace with his own kind. Now accompanied solely by Teddy, David recalls The Adventures of Pinocchio and decides to find the Blue Fairy in the hope that she will make him a “real boy”. David and Teddy are captured by the “Flesh Fair”.

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