Detective Del Spooner
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Spooner lives with survivor's guilt and a robotic arm after a car accident, when a robot manages to save him over a 12-year-old girl. Spooner is assigned to investigate the apparent suicide of his friend Alfred Lanning (Cromwell), the Roboticist who founded the company U.S. Robotics (USR) and created his replacement arm.
Del Spooner, a homicide detective in the Chicago Police Department, has come to hate and distrust robots, after a robot rescued him from a car crash while allowing a 12-year-old girl to drown based purely on cold logic and odds of survival.
Jul 16, 2004 · A Chicago detective (Will Smith) investigates the murder of a robot designer and uncovers a conspiracy involving the Three Laws of Robotics. The film is based on Isaac Asimov's stories, but misses their complexity and nuance, according to critic Roger Ebert.
The I, Robot (2004 Film) Community Note includes chapter-by-chapter summary and analysis, character list, theme list, historical context, author biography and quizzes written by community members like you.
- Alex Proyas
Jul 16, 2004 · I, Robot: Directed by Alex Proyas. With Will Smith, Bridget Moynahan, Alan Tudyk, James Cromwell. In 2035, a technophobic cop investigates a crime that may have been perpetrated by a robot, which leads to a larger threat to humanity.
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- Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi
- Alex Proyas
- 2004-07-16
Jul 15, 2004 · Despite his dark history with robotics, Detective Del Spooner (Will Smith) investigates the alleged suicide of U.S. Robotics founder Alfred Lanning (James Cromwell) and believes that a human-like...
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- Sci-Fi, Action
- PG-13
On the eve of the launch of a new, advanced order of robot technology, the scientist responsible for its development (James Cromwell) is found dead, presumably a suicide. Police Detective Del Spooner ( Will Smith ) is called in to investigate.
