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* ProductionPosse: Creator/ChrisColumbus had also directed Creator/RobinWilliams in ''Film/MrsDoubtfire'' and ''Film/NineMonths''.
** He also directed Creator/BradleyWhitford in ''Film/AdventuresInBabysitting''.

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* ProductionPosse: Creator/ChrisColumbus had also directed Creator/RobinWilliams in ''Film/MrsDoubtfire'' and ''Film/NineMonths''.
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''Film/NineMonths''. He also directed Creator/BradleyWhitford in ''Film/AdventuresInBabysitting''.

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* CreatorBacklash:
** In his final standup special, ''Weapons of Self-Destruction'', Creator/RobinWilliams mocked doing this film.
** Creator/ChrisColumbus later admitted that although he wanted to direct the film to work in science fiction for the first time, the production ended up being more work than he was ready for and there should have been a different director. The next time he directed a sci-fi film, it would be ''{{Film/Pixels}}'' in 2015.



* OldShame:
** In his final standup special, ''Weapons of Self-Destruction'', Creator/RobinWilliams mocked doing this film.
** Creator/ChrisColumbus later admitted that although he wanted to direct the film to work in science fiction for the first time, the production ended up being more work than he was ready for and there should have been a different director. The next time he directed a sci-fi film, it would be ''{{Film/Pixels}}'' in 2015.
* ProductionPosse: Chris Columbus had also directed Robin Williams in ''Film/MrsDoubtfire'' and ''Film/NineMonths''.
** He also directed Bradley Whitford in ''Film/AdventuresInBabysitting''.

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* OldShame:
** In his final standup special, ''Weapons of Self-Destruction'',
ProductionPosse: Creator/ChrisColumbus had also directed Creator/RobinWilliams mocked doing this film.
** Creator/ChrisColumbus later admitted that although he wanted to direct the film to work in science fiction for the first time, the production ended up being more work than he was ready for and there should have been a different director. The next time he directed a sci-fi film, it would be ''{{Film/Pixels}}'' in 2015.
* ProductionPosse: Chris Columbus had also directed Robin Williams
in ''Film/MrsDoubtfire'' and ''Film/NineMonths''.
** He also directed Bradley Whitford Creator/BradleyWhitford in ''Film/AdventuresInBabysitting''.
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* PlayingGertrude: Creator/BradleyWhitford plays the adult Lloyd, but is actually older than his on-screen mother Embeth Davidtz. This down to the latter playing Little Miss across her whole adult life.
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** Creator/ChrisColumbus later admitted that although he wanted to direct the film to work in science fiction for the first time, the production ended up being more work than he was ready for and there should have been a different director.

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** Creator/ChrisColumbus later admitted that although he wanted to direct the film to work in science fiction for the first time, the production ended up being more work than he was ready for and there should have been a different director. The next time he directed a sci-fi film, it would be ''{{Film/Pixels}}'' in 2015.
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* BoxOfficeBomb: Budget, $100 million. Gross, $87,423,861.
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: During his long search for other robots, Andrew is in New York City with the original World Trade Center behind him, apparently taller and with a connecting bridge between the towers.
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* ExecutiveMeddling: Disney cut the budget by $20 million, resulting in the film losing scenes and having lacklustre marketing. This led to Robin Williams falling out with Disney again.

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* ExecutiveMeddling: Disney cut the budget by $20 million, resulting in the film losing scenes and having lacklustre marketing. This led to Robin Williams falling out with Disney again.again after he had earlier reconciled with them following a similar incident on ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}''.
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** He also directed Bradley Whitford in ''Adventures in Babysitting''.

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** He also directed Bradley Whitford in ''Adventures in Babysitting''.''Film/AdventuresInBabysitting''.
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** He also directed Bradley Whitford in ''Adventures in Babysitting''.
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* ActingForTwo: Embeth Davidtz plays both the adult form of Little Miss and her granddaughter Portia.

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* ActingForTwo: Embeth Davidtz Creator/EmbethDavidtz plays both the adult form of Little Miss and her granddaughter Portia.



* PlayingGertrude: Bradley Whitford plays the adult Lloyd, but is actually older than his on-screen mother Embeth Davidtz. This down to the latter playing Little Miss across her whole adult life.

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* PlayingGertrude: Bradley Whitford Creator/BradleyWhitford plays the adult Lloyd, but is actually older than his on-screen mother Embeth Davidtz. This down to the latter playing Little Miss across her whole adult life.
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* FakeAmerican: Sam Neill (Irish-New Zealander) and Embeth Davidtz (South African) as Sir and Little Miss.

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* FakeAmerican: Sam Neill Creator/SamNeill (Irish-New Zealander) and Embeth Davidtz (South African) as Sir and Little Miss.
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* FakeAmerican: Sam Neill (Irish-Australian) and Embeth Davidtz (South African) as Sir and Little Miss.

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* FakeAmerican: Sam Neill (Irish-Australian) (Irish-New Zealander) and Embeth Davidtz (South African) as Sir and Little Miss.
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* UnintendedPeriodPiece: During his long search for other robots, Andrew is in New York City with the original World Trade Center behind him, apparently taller and with a connecting bridge between the towers.

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* UnintendedPeriodPiece: UnintentionalPeriodPiece: During his long search for other robots, Andrew is in New York City with the original World Trade Center behind him, apparently taller and with a connecting bridge between the towers.
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* UnintendedPeriodPiece: During his long search for other robots, Andrew is in New York City with the original World Trade Center behind him, apparently taller and with a connecting bridge between the towers.
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* MissingTrailerScene: The film had notoriously misleading ads featuring, among other things, Galatea singing "U-g-l-y" — this was never in the movie.

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* MissingTrailerScene: The film had notoriously misleading ads featuring, among other things, marketing, with trailers emphasizing its potential to be a robot version of ''Film/MrsDoubtfire'' ([[NeverTrustATrailer it wasn't]]) and somewhere between one-quarter to one-half of the scenes used in the trailer were cut from the film or alternate takes that weren't used (such as when Galatea singing "U-g-l-y" — this was never does a [[TheFreelanceShameSquad point-and-laugh]] at Andrew, but in the movie.film she's hiding her face).
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* CompletelyDifferentTitle: The movie became ''Andrew--[=NDR114=]'' in Japan.
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* ActingForTwo: Embeth Davidtz plays both the adult form of Little Miss and her granddaughter Portia.


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* ExecutiveMeddling: Disney cut the budget by $20 million, resulting in the film losing scenes and having lacklustre marketing. This led to Robin Williams falling out with Disney again.
* FakeAmerican: Sam Neill (Irish-Australian) and Embeth Davidtz (South African) as Sir and Little Miss.


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* PlayingGertrude: Bradley Whitford plays the adult Lloyd, but is actually older than his on-screen mother Embeth Davidtz. This down to the latter playing Little Miss across her whole adult life.
* ProductionPosse: Chris Columbus had also directed Robin Williams in ''Film/MrsDoubtfire'' and ''Film/NineMonths''.


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* WritingAroundTrademarks: In the novella, the robotic company is called US Robots and Mechanical Men. A real-life company named themselves US Robotics in honor of Isaac Asimov, requiring the company to be called [=NorthAm=] Robotics in the film (as they are not portrayed positively).
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* DyeingForYourArt: Creator/RobinWilliams shaved off his considerable body hair to play the robotic Andrew.

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* DyeingForYourArt: Creator/RobinWilliams shaved off his considerable body hair to play the robotic Andrew. He was also the one under the robot suit, as body doubles had trouble replicating his body language.

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* DyeingForYourArt: Creator/RobinWilliams shaved off his considerable body hair to play the robotic Andrew.



* OldShame: In his final standup special, ''Weapons of Self-Destruction'', Creator/RobinWilliams mocked doing this film.

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* OldShame: OldShame:
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In his final standup special, ''Weapons of Self-Destruction'', Creator/RobinWilliams mocked doing this film.film.
** Creator/ChrisColumbus later admitted that although he wanted to direct the film to work in science fiction for the first time, the production ended up being more work than he was ready for and there should have been a different director.



* WhatCouldHaveBeen: This was originally planned with Creator/TomHanks starring and Creator/WolfgangPetersen directing.

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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: This was originally planned with Creator/TomHanks starring and Creator/WolfgangPetersen directing. Creator/TimAllen was also considered, but he was busy with ''Film/GalaxyQuest''. Other candidates included Creator/DanAykroyd, Creator/AlecBaldwin, Creator/JeffBridges, Creator/BillyCrystal, Creator/RobertDeNiro, Creator/RichardDreyfuss, Creator/HarrisonFord, Creator/MelGibson, Creator/AnthonyHopkins, Creator/MichaelKeaton, Creator/SteveMartin, Creator/BillMurray, Creator/JackNicholson, Creator/BillPaxton, Creator/KurtRussell, Creator/WilliamShatner and Creator/MartinShort.
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* OldShame: In one of his comedy routines, Creator/RobinWilliams stated that he regretted doing this film.

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* OldShame: In one of his comedy routines, final standup special, ''Weapons of Self-Destruction'', Creator/RobinWilliams stated that he regretted mocked doing this film.
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* MissingTrailerScene: The film had notoriously misleading ads featuring, among other things, Galatea singing "U-g-l-y" — this was never in the movie.

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* OldShame: In one of his comedy routines, Robin Williams stated that he regretted doing this film.

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* HarpoDoesSomethingFunny: When Andrew regales the family with jokes, the jokes themselves were unscripted. Creator/RobinWilliams ad-libbed all of the jokes. The other actors' reactions to the jokes and their laughter are real.
* OldShame: In one of his comedy routines, Robin Williams Creator/RobinWilliams stated that he regretted doing this film.film.
* PropRecycling: The car that Ma'am drives in the film is the same car used in ''Film/DemolitionMan''.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: This was originally planned with Creator/TomHanks starring and Creator/WolfgangPetersen directing.
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* BoxOfficeBomb: Budget, $100 million. Gross, $87,423,861.

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* BoxOfficeBomb: Budget, $100 million. Gross, $87,423,861.$87,423,861.
*OldShame: In one of his comedy routines, Robin Williams stated that he regretted doing this film.
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* BoxOfficeBomb: Budget, $100 million. Gross, $87,423,861.

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