Jack Schreier's smart helming debut is a marginally futuristic, emotionally genuine yarn. Set in bucolic Cold Spring, N.Y., “in the near future,” the story begins with 70-year-old Frank (Langella) ...

Frank Langella plays our 70-something hero (and how refreshing that is!), a former cat burglar who has served two stretches inside. He’s a man out of sorts and nearly out of time – he’s grouchy and ...

The two films will split a $20,000 prize from the Sundance Institute Feature Film Program, which also awarded a Commissioning Grant to "Flood" and a Lab Fellowship to "Operator." By Daniel Miller, Jay ...

There's a brave new world in the not-too-distant future in the low-key and charming sci-fi comedy drama "Robot & Frank." It is a place where a frustrated adult son at his wit's end about what to do ...

A new trailer for Robot and Frank has been released. The film, set in the "near future," stars Frank Langella as Frank, an ageing jewel thief who plans one last heist with a robot. Frank, who ...

The Sundance Film Festival award-winner “Robot & Frank” is set in the near future, where robots are part of everyday society and as common as toasters. Frank Langella (“Frost/Nixon”) stars as the ...

If a movie about a robot kicking it with and old guy isn’t enough, they also are jewel thieves!!!!!?! What a left turn. I feel like Hollywood underestimates how interested we are in robots and ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook The term “old age” elicits a variety of emotional responses in those of us who aren’t quite there ...

In the near future, Frank is a retired catburglar living alone while his successful son, Hunter, tries to care for him from afar. Finally, Hunter gets him a robot caretaker, but Frank soon learns that ...

Like Scrooge and the Spirit of Christmas Future, pop-culture junkies fear the last two weeks in August most of all. Summer television series are wrapping up, and there are a couple of fallow weeks ...

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Like the best movies, the ones that manage effortlessly to work their way into your head and heart, Robot & Frank has a deceptive simplicity. It also helps to have Frank Langella, a stellar actor at ...