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At the end of the movie, when Portia and Andrew are lying in their "beds," they are holding hands.  In all of the far away shots, Andrew's hand is on top, but in the close shots, it is underneath. See more...

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The exterior shots of the NorthAm Robotics buildings where we see Andrew and Mr Martin walking are actually the headquarters of Oracle which is based in Redwood Shores, California. Also the office of Dennis Mansky, Head of NorthAm Robotics is the office of Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle. See more...

Bicentennial Man (1999) - 7 corrections

starring Robin Williams, Sam Neill (add more)

Genres: Sci-fi, Drama, Romance

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The chronology for this film is entirely wrong. At the very beginning of the movie, we are told that it is somewhere in the not too distant future and we see that the family gets the robot. It cannot be too far in to the future, since the family car has a 1999 type California license plate. The little girl, who is about 7, grows up and has a granddaughter and they are both alive at the same time. However, later we find that, while the granddaughter is still alive, the robot has lived 200 years. Either these two women must have lived extraordinarily long lives for this to happen, or the robot was created many many years before the little girl at the beginning of the movie was born. But we are told the year of the robots manufacture which is somewhere around 2012. This means that the robot had to have been created and sat on the shelf 60 or so years minimum and then sent to the family with the 1999 license plate.  [It's made very clear in the movie that the average human life span has been greatly increased by the artificial organs and other medical breakthroughs invented by Andrew. It is stated that, because of this, Portia looks 50 when she is really over 70. In the scene where that is established, she says that she won't go to the extreme of complete organ replacement, even though it would greatly increase her (already much extended) life expectancy. This is the reason that Andrew undergoes the blood replacement that limits his lifespan (as he was an android, that was indefinite). In the world the movie is set in, dying over 200 years after the birth of your grandmother is probably not even very unusual.]