Robot & Frank (2012)

A superb story of an older man with a failing memory and adult children who both love and are exasperated by him. He slowly warms to the presence of the helper robot his son leaves with him, and we do, too.

It’s original, charming, and wonderfully tender. It has a lot to say, but uses the most effective type of movie shorthand to simply plant the seeds of its ideas about friendship and aging and love in our minds so that we have the pleasure of realizing, well after the credits, that it has stayed with us and affected us.

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