It's the mid-21st century and man has developed a new type of computer that is aware of its own

existence. This computer has been utilized to help man cope with the melting of the polar ice caps
and the submerging of many of its coastal cities. This form of artificial intelligence has been used in
robots, and one such android, a young boy (Haley Joel Osment) is about to take an emotional
journey to find out if he can ever be anything more than a machine.

 A highly advanced robotic boy longs to become "real" so that he can regain the love of his
human mother.

—<jgp3553@excite.com>

 In the not-so-far future the polar ice caps have melted and the resulting rise of the ocean
waters has drowned all the coastal cities of the world. Withdrawn to the interior of the
continents, the human race keeps advancing, reaching the point of creating realistic robots
(called mechas) to serve them. One of the mecha-producing companies builds David, an
artificial kid which is the first to have real feelings, especially a never-ending love for his
"mother", Monica. Monica is the woman who adopted him as a substitute for her real son,
who remains in cryo-stasis, stricken by an incurable disease. David is living happily with
Monica and her husband, but when their real son returns home after a cure is discovered,
his life changes dramatically.

—Chris Makrozahopoulos <makzax@hotmail.com>

 David, a "Mecha" or robot of the future, when the polar ice caps have melted and
submerged many coastal cities, causing worldwide starvation and human dependence upon
robotic assistance. The first Mecha designed to experience love, David is the "son" of Henry,
an employee of the company that built the boy, and the grief-stricken Monica. David is
meant to replace the couple's hopelessly comatose son, but when their natural child
recovers, David is abandoned and sets out to become "a real boy" worthy of his mother's
affection. Along the way, David is mentored by a pleasure-providing Mecha named Gigolo
Joe and a talking "super toy" bear named Teddy. His adventures take him to the Roman
Circus-style "Flesh Fair," where Mechas are destroyed for the amusement of humans; Rouge
City, where Gigolo Joe narrowly avoids capture by police; and finally a submerged New York
City, where David's creator, Professor Hobby (William Hurt) reveals the secrets of the boy's
creation.
 In the futuristic tale, a highly advanced robotic boy named David is 11 years old. He weighs
60 pounds. He is 4 feet, 6 inches tall. He has brown hair. His love is real. But he is not. He
is a marvel of cybernetic progress who really only wants to be a real boy, loved by his
mother and his father in that happy place called home. But David journeys out into the
forests to find a way to become a real boy.

—Anthony Pereyra {hypersonic91@yahoo.com}

 In this futuristic fairy tale, "David", a highly-advanced robotic boy, hopes to become a real
boy so that he can win back the affection of the human mother who abandoned him. Like
Pinocchio, he goes on a long journey hoping to find his "Blue Fairy," who can make his
dreams come true.

—jgp3553@excite.com
 In the future, artificial intelligence has involved in such a way that a family can now accept
a near to life like child. This is exactly what the Swinton family does, but when things get
worse for the relationship between the family and this new child, they send it out to survive
on its own. With only the name David and a passion to become a real boy, the child
becomes friends with Gigolo Joe and sets off to make it become a reality.

—FilmFanUk

Spoilers
The synopsis below may give away important plot points.
It's the mid-21st century and man has developed a new type of computer that is aware of its own
existence. This computer has been utilized to help man cope with the melting of the polar ice caps
and the submerging of many of its coastal cities. This form of artificial intelligence has been used in
robots, and one such android, a young boy (Haley Joel Osment) is about to take an emotional
journey to find out if he can ever be anything more than a machine.

 The story takes place in the future where the greenhouse gases have caused the polar
icecaps to melt, flooding coastal cities. To combat over-population, people wishing to have
children must apply for a license.

The film starts in the offices of a company called Cybertronics, where its owner, Professor
Allen Hobby (William Hurt), wishes to push mecha (aka robotic) technology, to make a
creation that can love. When his colleagues mention their 'love units' Hobby corrects them:
he is not talking physical love, but emotional love, such as that of a child for its mother.

The narrative then moves 18 months into the future where the Swintons, whose son Martin
(Jake Thomas) is currently in cryostasis until a cure can be found for a debilitating disease
he is stricken with. His mother Monica (Frances O'Connor) has not held up well emotionally
under the conditions that have taken her son from her. Hoping to help her cope, her
husband Henry (Sam Robards), a Cybertronics employee, takes part in a test wherein they
would be able to be a family to the company's newest mecha: David (Haley Joel Osment),
the culmination of Hobby's research to make a robot that can 'love.'

At first, Monica is angry, believing her husband is trying to 'replace' Martin. However,
Monica tries to adapt to David. Henry also informs her that if they choose to keep David
that she must 'imprint' herself upon him. However, if there was ever to come a time that
she chose not to want him, due to the imprinting being permanent, David would need to be
sent back to Cybertronics to be destroyed. After some time, Monica decides to perform the
imprinting process; she reads a list of words that will activate David's emotional simulation.
When she does, David calls her "mommy" and begins to act like a real child. To provide
David with another form of companionship, she gives him a robotic teddy bear called Teddy,
which once belonged to Martin.

Things appear to be going well for the Swintons, until one day, a cure brings Martin back to
health. Martin looks upon David not as a human, but more as a 'supertoy' or a 'doll.' One
day, Martin asks their mother to read them 'Pinocchio,' to which David becomes enamored
by, in which the wooden puppet becomes a real boy thanks to the story's Blue Fairy.

Martin then tries to get David into trouble in a number of ways. First, he cajoles David into
eating spinach, which causes David to malfunction and need cleaning. Another time, he tells
David to cut off some of Monica's hair while she sleeps as a gesture of love, but the incident
makes Henry think that David was trying to attack his wife.

At Martin's birthday party, one of his friends decides to test David, to see if he has a way to
prevent himself from pain. The 'test' causes David to grab onto Martin, crying 'keep me
safe.' The two fall into the Swinton's swimming pool, where it seems that David was
attempting to drown Martin.

Henry decides that David is no longer safe, and convinces Monica to return David to be
destroyed. Monica tries to take David to Cybertronics under the cover story of going on a
picnic. However, she cannot bring herself to take David directly to Cybertronics and
abandons him in a forest, along with Teddy. David becomes frightened and confused and he
questions why he is being forced to leave his mother.

Meanwhile, a male-prostitute mecha, Gigolo Joe, arrives at the apartment of a woman he

sees regularly. He changes his appearance to suit her and, entering the bedroom, finds her
dead. Her husband appears and kisses his wife, saying "I might have killed you but you
killed me first". Joe retreats, realizing that the woman's husband is framing him for the
murder. Joe rushes out of the apartment building and cuts off his registration tag to avoid
detection by the police.

Still in the forest, David concludes that his abandonment was because he is not real like
Martin, and that if he were to find the Blue Fairy like in the story 'Pinocchio,' she could make
him real, and he would then be able to go home. Journeying through the woods, he comes
across a number of abandoned, obsolete and broken-down mechas searching through
Cybertronics' junk piles for spare parts to repair themselves. The mechas are rounded up by
a man named Lord Johnson-Johnson (Brendan Gleeson), and taken to a 'Flesh Fair' where
mechas are destroyed for the amusement of anti-mecha fanatics. David is brought into the
ring along with the mecha named Gigolo Joe. When a few buckets of acid are to be dropped
on both himself and Joe, David cries out, showing fear like a real boy. The crowd revolts
against Johnson-Johnson and amid the resulting riot, David and Joe are set free and leave.

Escaping into the nearby woods, David tells Joe of his search for the Blue Fairy. Joe is
confident that they'll find her in a place called Rouge City. Hitching a ride with some
teenagers, they make it to the city: a mecca of adult entertainment that rivals Las Vegas
and Disneyland. Their journey takes them to a place where a knowledgeable computer
representation of Einstein, called Dr Know (voiced by Robin Williams), tells them that the
Blue Fairy can be found "at the end of the world where the lions weep". Joe explains to
David that Dr Know must mean a place called 'Man-hattan,' as many mechas have gone to
the end of the world and have never come back.

David is all for going to 'Man-hattan' despite the danger. However, Joe tries to deter him,
saying that it could be a trap. As David and Joe leave the building, Joe is accosted by
officers, who have come to arrest him for murder, a fact David is unaware of. Seeing a
vehicle sitting nearby called an Amphibicopter,' David takes the controls, and manages to
release Joe from the clutches of the officers. Joe gets in and takes the controls, guiding
them to 'Man-hattan.'

Their journey leads them to the flooded New York City where they find the Cybertronics
building, on which sit statues of lions weeping water from their eyes. David enters a room,
where he finds another mecha that looks just like him. However, feeling this duplicate could
be planning to take his mother away from him, David destroys it in a jealous rage. It is then
that Professor Hobby reveals his presence, telling David that he used Dr. Know to lead him
'home,' telling David that the Blue Fairy is only a myth. Hobby leaves David alone, to fetch
the team members who designed him. David wanders around Hobby's office, finding the
different mechanical items that were instrumental in his creation, as well as fully-boxed
'David' and 'Darlene' units for consumer purchase. The sight of them makes David feel even
worse, in that his journey to become human has yielded no way for him to become human
to regain his mother's love.

David makes his way outside the Cybertronics building, and then jumps off into the waters
below. As he floats in the water he suddenly sees something glowing in the distance. Before
he can move further, a claw from the Amphibicopter snares him, dragging him out of the
water. Above the water, David tells Joe that he saw the Blue Fairy, and that she is down
below. However, before Joe can help David, another Amphibicopter appears and captures
Joe. Before he is pulled skyward, Joe activates the Amphibicopter for David to go
underwater.

David and Teddy pilot the vehicle deep into the submerged city, finding themselves in the
remnants of the Coney Island amusement park. David guides the craft to the park's
Fairytale Land, and within a 'Pinocchio-themed' area, finds a statue of the Blue Fairy.
However, maneuvering the craft causes a nearby Ferris wheel to collapse, trapping the
Amphibicopter near the statue. David is not at all concerned, but is elated that he has finally
found the Blue Fairy. He then begins to 'pray' to her, wishing to become a real boy.

Two thousand years pass in which the world has become blanketed in a new ice age, and
humans have all but died out. Excavating the ice are evolved mechas of the future, trying to
unearth and study the remnants of the culture and species that created them. An
excavation team working amid the Coney Island amusement park comes across David and
Teddy, frozen in the Amphibicopter.

Searching through David and Teddy's memories, they are amazed to find that he had once
lived among humans. Using David and Teddy's memories, they concoct a fabricated reality
of the Swinton's house, in which David meets a creation resembling the Blue Fairy. David
wishes to be a real boy, and to see Monica again. The blue fairy explains that she cannot
make him real, and that since 2,000 years have passed, she is no longer living. The blue
fairy tells David they can bring back other humans, but David only wants Monica. Explaining
that they n eed a hair sample or other human tissue, Teddy reveals the strands of hair that
David had snipped from Monica's head. David demands that since he has Monica's hair, the
blue fairy should now be able to bring her back. The Blue Fairy says that she can make this
so, and David is taken to his room.

After some time, one of the future mechas comes to talk with David, concerning his 'wish' to
have Monica brought back to life. The mecha explains that in the past the resurrection of
humans have proven to be non-lasting, that any such 'resurrectees' would only live for one
day. Even with this revelation, David still wishes to meet Monica again.

The future mechas grant him his wish, and the resurrected Monica and David, along with
Teddy, spend an entire day together, doing all sorts of things. When it finally comes time for
them to go to sleep, the resurrected Monica tells David that she loves him. With this
knowledge, David himself also goes to sleep, content and happy at last.