But Finch, who has been living in an underground bunker for a decade, has built a world of his own that he shares with his dog, Goodyear. Hanks stars as Finch, a robotics engineer and one of the few survivors of a cataclysmic solar event that has left the world a wasteland. In “Finch,” a man, a robot and a dog form an unlikely family in a powerful and moving adventure of one man’s quest to ensure that his beloved canine companion will be cared for after he’s gone. “Finch” is an Imagemovers and Misher Films production. Apple Original Films’ “Finch” is an Amblin Entertainment and Reliance Entertainment presentation, in association with Walden Media. The executive producers are Academy Award winner Robert Zemeckis, Luck, Sapochnik, Andy Berman, Adam Merims and Jeb Brody. The film is produced by Kevin Misher (“Coming 2 America,” “Fighting With My Family”), Jack Rapke (“Cast Away,” “Flight"), Jacqueline Levine (“Witches,” “Allied”), and Powell. Hanks’ follow-up to the blockbuster Apple Original Film “Greyhound” comes from cutting-edge filmmaker Miguel Sapochnik (“Game of Thrones,” “True Detective”), with an original screenplay by Craig Luck, making his feature-film writing debut, and Ivor Powell (associate producer of “Blade Runner” and “Alien”). “Finch” stars Tom Hanks and Screen Actors Guild Award winner Caleb Landry Jones (“Get Out,” “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”), who recently won best actor at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival. He also shows his increased sense of personhood by asking for a name, though he also shows a still-limited understanding with the first few names he suggests.Apple Original Films announced today that the highly anticipated film “Finch” will debut on Apple TV+ on Friday, November 5.
(Given the masculine name and voice, I’m going to refer to it as “he.”) His posture straightens, he develops the ability to understand idioms and metaphors, and his speech becomes clearer and more expressive. Caleb Landry Jones impressively shows the carefully calibrated voice and movements of the robot as he becomes more “human” along the way. The robot may only have 72 percent of the uploaded data, but it clearly has some very powerful machine learning AI. Finch gets frustrated with his creation, and with his inability to program him to be everything he needs. He has no idea whether it's safe there, but they will “head west over the mountains in search of places that haven’t been ransacked and looted.”Īnd so, like all road trip movies, there is a destination (1,811 miles away, the robot notes) with many opportunities for conflict with outside forces and with each other. He has never seen it, but he's had a postcard with a picture of it since he was a teenager.
Finch wants to go to San Francisco and see the Golden Gate Bridge. As the storm arrives, they leave in a 1984 Fleetwood RV fueled by solar panels on the roof. Instead of Asimov’s primacy of human life and welfare, Finch tells the robot that his first priority is to care for the dog. Like any good engineer, Finch has programmed the robot with Isaac Asimov’s famous directives, but he adds another, superseding directive. “Tell me something interesting,” he says, and then, when the robot (voiced by Caleb Landry Jones) responds with a fact about giraffes, he says, “Tell me something interesting about you.” But Finch cannot resist investigating what his creation can do. There's a moment of wry humor as the computer program Finch is using to program the robot responds with an all-too-familiar message on the screen: “Please call technical support for assistance.”īecause they have to hurry, only 72 percent of the data is uploaded to the robot, and there's only time for a just a couple of quick lessons on vital matters like walking without falling down. But the storm is getting closer very quickly. And so, he builds a bigger robot, scanning his entire library to upload it as memory. The other conflict becomes more apparent when we see Finch cough up blood. One of them concerns a fast-approaching storm that's so devastating they can no longer stay in his home/lab in St. But as the movie begins, Finch has to make some changes. Goodyear the dog and a cute little robot named Dewey (like the one in “ Silent Running”) are his only companions. Creating gizmos and foraging in a high-tech hazmat suit has kept him occupied and helped him stay alive for 15 years after the end of nearly everything. Finch, once an engineer and computer whiz, is a loner and a tinkerer by nature. Now, even a few seconds in sunlight burns exposed skin.
A sun flare has wiped out the ozone layer and most human, animal, and plant life on Earth with devastating radiation.
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