Title: THE COMPANION - CLASSY, SCAREY, FUNNY AND SHOULD BE ON DVD!
Review: It's taken me years to track this down - I remember seeing this made-for-tv movie years ago on daytime tv. It was absolutely brilliant - a woman writer suffering from writer's block hires a robot (Bruce Greenwood) to do the hard work and heads out to the mountains to write her next novel. Frustrated with his limited conversation ("What is it with you and syntax?") - she decides to upgrade him with 'interesting' results. Geoffrey the robot is very attractive and the more she ratchets up his abilities, the more is revealed about the conflicts between men and women, the expectations we demand of each other that even a robot can never fully deliver.The film is tongue-in-cheek, but harrowing and sad too. Be careful what you ask for of a 'person' because you might just get it, in spades!Bruce Greenwood is outstanding in this movie. Why are made-for-tv movies so under-rated? This one is terrific and SHOULD GO TO DVD NOW!!
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