82 minutes – Comedy
Language: English
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Canadian distributor: Darius Films
If you grew up in the 1950s and were old enough to watch TV on your own you will probably remember all those neat shows about the future. Back then the future was some great thing to look forward to where mankind would live a life of leisure and work, from mundane household chores to building rocket ships to take us into space would be handled by friendly robots. Meet Kent Weston, played by Chris Gibbs. Kent lives in that sort of future. Well, almost. Life is not just comfortable but comfortably predictable as well. And then one day Kent is demoted because his job has been given to a robot (Peter Mooney) named, Adam. A very human kind of robot. A good looking, perhaps even sexy robot. The real story behind the film begins when Kent’s main crush, Allison (Lara Kelly), becomes more interested in the robot than in him. Calling on his techno-savvy pal Garth, Kent sets out to destroy the robotic interloper. Stymied in his initial efforts, Kent`s plans become more and more complex, until he ultimately succeeds in frying Adam’s circuits. Kent gets his old job back, but he fails to win back Allison who thinks his behaviour was cruel. Alone with just the cold comfort of his own well-oiled routine, Kent begins to question just how much robot there is in him and how much human there was in Adam.
Daniel O’Connor
Lauren Woodcock
Nicholas Tabarrok
Page Ostrow
Page Ostrow
Lauren Woodcock
Philip Svoboda
Gregor Hagey
Gareth Scales
Evelyne Datl
Vlasta Svoboda
David Chevalier
Emily Cade
Chris Gibbs
Lara Kelly
Peter Mooney
Christian Potenza
Don Allison
Tarah Consoli
Jamie Holmes
Sandy Jobin-Bevans
Christine Maharaj
Paolo Mancini
Brad Papernick
Renee Percy
Trip Phoenix
Sandi Ross
Kent Weston
Allison Hadley
Adam
Garth
Mr. Gardner
Waitress
Fantasy Woman
Ed Starr
Attractive Office Woman
Clerk
Employee #2
Young Woman
Singer
Claudia
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First published as Northernstars.net February 1, 1998
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