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5.4/10   967 votes
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Director:
LeVar Burton
Writers (WGA):
William Hudson (written by) and
Stu Krieger (written by)
Contact:
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Release Date:
26 June 1999 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama | Family | Sci-Fi more
Plot:
Meet the Coopers. An average American family. Meet Dad (Kilner), a widwoer and a father. Meet Agie (Volding)... more | add synopsis
Awards:
2 nominations more
User Comments:
HAL In Your Home more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Katey Sagal ... Pat

Ryan Merriman ... Ben Cooper

Katie Volding ... Angie Cooper

Kevin Kilner ... Nick Cooper

Jessica Steen ... Sara Barnes
Emilio Borelli ... Miles
Paul Linke ... Tuttle
Jason Lansing ... Johnny
Joshua Boyd ... Ryan
Raquel Beaudene ... Gwen Patroni
Niles Calloway ... Charlie

Sean P. Donahue ... Passing Kid (as Sean Donahuoe)
Nicole Bailey ... Pretty Girl
Rachel Duncan ... Judy

Susan Haskell ... Natalie
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Additional Details

Runtime:
USA:82 min | USA:90 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Sound Mix:
Stereo
Certification:
USA:Approved | Australia:G
Filming Locations:
Los Angeles, California, USA

Fun Stuff

Goofs:
Continuity: During the interview when the lady reporter asks a question she doesn't have a microphone, but when she asks a second question she has a microphone, and when it goes to all the reporters laughing she doesn't have a microphone. more
Quotes:
Angie: Ok, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to make you mad.
Ben: Next time, you should think before you open your mouth!
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Soundtrack:
C'est La Vie more

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1 out of 1 people found the following comment useful:-
HAL In Your Home, 9 January 2009
7/10
Author: bkoganbing from Buffalo, New York

One of the more clever Disney television movies is definitely Smart House. This involves a family winning a contest to live as guinea pigs in a futuristic house that is completely computer controlled. But like HAL in 2001 A Space Odyssey or Colossus, The Forbin Project the super artificial brain starts to take over everything.

Kevin Kilner and his son Ryan Merriman and daughter Angie Volding are the Cooper family and they win moving into a house that is completely computer controlled. It cleans up after itself, cooks meals, makes beds, etc. All with the cheery voice of that ultimate mother figure, Katey Sagal. It's even got a name like HAL, PAT in this case. It even helps Kilner organize his work so he can stay at home most of the time. Kilner has other needs however that Pat can't supply and that his kids can't understand.

Especially Merriman who misses his mother and is jealous of computer woman Jessica Steen who runs PAT's support systems and who Kilner starts showing an interest in. Merriman downloads some old family television shows to give PAT an idea of what the ideal mother is like.

It's a lot of laughs and then gets a bit frightening when Sagal materializes as a holograph and shuts the place down.

Several centuries later all the kinks got worked out and the Starship Enterprise certainly didn't need a mother figure supervising the crew's every needs. Smart House was a clever idea for a family film, nicely packaged by the folks at The Magic Kingdom.

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