Prototype VHS

An intelligent android called Michael is constructed by a research team. Michael is taken outdoors by his creator and successfully passed off as human in a trial run. When the government hears of this, they order their own set of tests in Washington. When the project leader realizes the military wants to repurpose the android as a soldier, he can’t accept it, and he and Michael go into hiding to avoid their clutches.

In a performance that brings smart dialogue and simple but telling cinematography to a deserving SF-savvy audience, Prototype is a 1983 TV film starring Christopher Plummer, David Morse, and Frances Sternhagen. In this unabashed homage to the story by Mary Shelley which began a genre, artificial life is brought to casual life as we know it – a curiosity, a property, a fellow living thing, and finally an entity in search of its purpose, place and destiny.

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1983
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English audio