Robot Stories
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| Directed by | Greg Pak |
| Produced by | Karin Chien Kim Ima |
| Written by | Greg Pak |
| Starring |
Tamlyn Tomita James Saito Wai Ching Ho Greg Pak Sab Shimono |
| Music by | Rick Knutsen |
| Cinematography | Peter Olsen |
| Edited by | Stephanie Sterner |
| Distributed by | Pak Film |
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85 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $131,451 |
Robot Stories is a 2003 American independent anthology science fiction comedy-drama film written and directed by Greg Pak. The film consists of four stories in which human characters struggle to connect in a world of robot babies and android office workers. The film has won over 30 Film Festival awards.
The film is divided up to four short stories:
A young Marsha hides in the closet from her parents' fighting due to a mistake she has made. Marsha apologizes when her mother finds her in the closet; her mother tells Marsha to never fall in love, get married, and have children. Twenty-five years later, Marsha is married to Ray and they are looking towards adopting a child. After going to an adoption clinic, they apply for an adoption trial where they take care of a robotic baby before they can adopt a human child. Marsha begins to struggle when she is alone to take care of the robot baby, as she becomes flustered with what to do when the baby cries. Marsha brings the robot baby to her father, a handyman, and sees if he can tamper with the electronics of the robot. However, Marsha’s father worries that the doctors of the adoption clinic will detect the alteration of the robot. Nonetheless, Marsha persists on getting the baby reprogrammed and leaves the baby to her father while Marsha goes to work. As Marsha comes home to the robot baby now automated, she attempts to talk to the baby. However, the robot baby goes berserk and attacks Marsha. Marsha finds the robot baby in the closet, then remembers her young self hiding in the closet as her own mother was angry. Marsha then cries and is able to hug her robot baby, finding closure to her past.
Bernice witnesses her son, Wilson, in a severe accident that left him in a coma. Upset, she heads to Wilson's apartment and cleans up the place with her daughter, Grace. Bernice finds Wilson's old toy robot collection and attempts to find the missing parts through yard sales and hobby shops. Throughout the search, Bernice remembers flashbacks of how little she really knows of Wilson, as the young Wilson would play with his robot toys and not hear Bernice's callings. As Bernice learns that Wilson will inevitably die, Bernice scrambles to find the last, missing piece of the robot collection, only to find it at a hobby shop, not for sale. She steals it and runs away, only to find out that she lost the piece as she was escaping. However, Grace meets up with her and comforts Bernice that Bernice finally found the closure she needed between Bernice and her son.
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