PARK CITY, Utah, Jan 22 (TheWrap.com) – Saturday’s substantial snowfall may have slowed the Park City shuttle buses that take Sundance audiences from screening to screening, but the film festival kept on keeping on, with two afternoon world premieres that — like previous Sundance hits “Little Miss Sunshine” and “The Kids Are All Right” — tweak genre conventions while remaining exceedingly audience-friendly.
Frank Langella gives another compelling performance in “Robot and Frank,” a movie that often felt like a cross between “Driving Miss Daisy” and the senior-citizens-rob-a-bank comedy “Going in Style,” with a science fiction twist.
Set in the near future (you can tell because the adults all have names like “Hunter” and “Madison”), the film sees the elderly Frank (Langella), who’s fighting off dementia, being left in the care of a nurse robot (voiced by Peter Sarsgaard) provided to Frank by his estranged son (James Marsden). We come to realize that Frank used to be a cat burglar, and since the robot hasn’t been programmed with a moral compass, Frank teaches him how
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