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To its credit the picture is a quite dark and disturbing story of an abandoned robotic child, the first in the world programmed to love, searching desperately to reunite with his adoptive human mother. The unequivocal winner in this film is 13-year-old actor Haley Joel Osment who gives an outstanding performance as David, the robotic child who can love. Osment appears in nearly every scene and his screen portrayal is every bit as riveting as his haunting performance in The Sixth Sense, which won him an Oscar nomination. Osment provides the emotional core to the story. Audiences may find they strongly connect with this Spielberg-fashioned child yearning for the unavailable love of his mother.