ARTHUR, a brilliant but awkward Computer Science professor, creates an intelligent program that develops a challenging personality. His struggles with his computer "child" force him to ...
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Title: The Professor's Daughter (2007)
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| Bradley Fisher | ... | Arthur (as Brad Fisher) | |
| Rachel Style | ... | Jane | |
| Wayne Roberts | ... | Wendt | |
| Jean St. James | ... | Cassandra | |
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ARTHUR, a brilliant but awkward Computer Science professor, creates an intelligent program that develops a challenging personality. His struggles with his computer "child" force him to reconsider his relationship with his flesh-and-blood daughter. Written by Anonymous
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18 February 2007 (USA) See more »Filming Locations:
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I just saw THE PROFESSOR'S DAUGHTER at the Wisconsin Film Festival, where it was received with warm, enthusiastic, sincere applause, so the audience liked it, clearly.
But ... I must've missed something. I don't get it. We're given a fairly standard sci-fi template for a story that's been told numerous times before -- the dedicated scientist tinkering with a computer that's on the verge of achieving virtual self-awareness ... It's well-scripted, well-acted, with at least four engaging characters -- the professor, his ex-wife, his sidekick or star student, and his daughter. I really can't fault any of the work here, but I'm not sure what it all adds up to.
As someone who's seen a lot of science fiction movies, THE PROFESSOR'S DAUGHTER establishes a familiar but always intriguing premise, and then ... it's over. If there was a new or different 'riff' on the standard artificial intelligence story line, if there was something added or different here from a dozen films that have told similar stories, it eluded me. It was, basically, the first fifteen minutes of a pretty good sci-fi movie, but it ends without distinguishing itself ...