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Tuesday, 26 June 2012

Is "Robot & Frank" The Next Great Indie Scifi Movie?

Posted on 08:32 by rajrani
If "Wall-E" and "Up" made a baby and decided to raise it live-action, it would probably look a lot like "Robot & Frank;" which is amazingly NOT based on some forgotten/loosely-reworked Isaac Asimov story. Set in the near future, Frank Langella stars as an elderly man whose concerned kids buy him a )very Asimo-looking) caretaker robot; whose is programmed not only to protect and help him physically but also nudge him into psychologically-beneficial hobbies. Complicating matters is the fact that Frank's pre-retirement career was master jewel-thief; and when the opportunity to pull a heist on some obnoxious young riches, Robot becomes Frank's protege' for one last job.

This. Looks. AWESOME.
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