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      The Android Affair

      PG-13 1995 1h 37m Sci-Fi List
      Reviews 0% 100+ Ratings Audience Score A surgeon (Harley Jane Kozak) finds her boss to be a killer android (Ossie Davis) with the same heart defect as her android lover (Griffin Dunne). Read More Read Less

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      Audience Member TV MOVIE. Lame turkey. USA 4/12/1995 Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 02/16/23 Full Review Audience Member Really lame and horribly lit, fing vhs 4:3 tv movie. Bad acting coupled with okay acting. Really unappealing until the twist ending, but by that time you really don't care and the whole revelation just makes you shrug more than gasp. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/02/23 Full Review Audience Member I wanted to like this, but I couldn't get past the first 20 minutes. Why? It was boring. So very very boring. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 01/26/23 Full Review david h The possibility of intimate relations between android and human has been referred to in several motion pictures, notably BLADERUNNER, directed by Ridley Scott, and that is the subject of this poorly composed work, produced for cable television, written by its director Richard Kletter and science fiction author Isaac Asimov, from a short film of Kletter's: "Teach 109". At the Institute For Surgical Research androids are subjects for empirical surgery, as the robotic creatures, formulated with the precise likeness of man but without a soul or an ability to feel pain, are able to express their exact internal physical condition throughout invasive procedures. Harley Jane Kozak portrays Dr. Karen Garrett, a newly fledged surgeon who has been selected by the head of the Institute to perfect a method for correcting a particularly severe cardiac condition, exploiting androids as experimentees. The individual chosen for her surgical task is of an advanced design of replicant played by Griffin Dunne, called Teach, and a burgeoning relationship between it and the doctor occupies the remainder of the romantic comedy. Teach has unexplainedly an eloquently endowed and rebellious personality and the script describes how, when attempting to maintain control of her wayward medical subject, Karen falls in love with it. Upon its persistent request, she smuggles Teach out from the Institute to enable it to learn of the real world and to interrelate with humans, and the film's problems become overwhelming at that point. A most obvious difficulty is in acceptance of Karen's abrupt metamorphosis from a dedicated and ambitious surgeon into a rather giddy and love-struck amorosa of an artificial being. Dunne and Kozak are noted for performing in roles emphasizing their talents for the expression of wry humour; Dunne responds well to strong direction (not available here) whereas Kozak has too limited an acting range to do much with this thinly written piece. A highly episodic scenario offers copious holes: the "outside world" into which the oddly matched lovers escape in this story set in the future has a remarkable similarity to contemporary Toronto, the streets of which are cleansed of human life whenever the storyline requires gunfire or other excessive activity; the casting is quaint with seemingly significant characters vanishing from the plot; there is precious little character development in lieu of inclusion of "twists" that don't and plot surprises that employ a telegraph; poor Kozak is given perhaps the most ludicrous line when she avows to the android: "You are the love of my life" - not edited properly, so that we are privy to the beginning of her afterlaugh - typical of this slipslop production. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      David Nusair Reel Film Reviews If you ever wondered what [Saul] Rubinek would've looked like had he been a member of Poison, wonder no more... Rated: 1.5/4 Feb 16, 2003 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Synopsis A surgeon (Harley Jane Kozak) finds her boss to be a killer android (Ossie Davis) with the same heart defect as her android lover (Griffin Dunne).
      Director
      Richard Kletter
      Production Co
      Chanticleer Films
      Rating
      PG-13
      Genre
      Sci-Fi
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (DVD)
      Sep 7, 2010
      Runtime
      1h 37m