"And then future robots will resurrect you to spend one last day with your robo-kid, and it will be even sadder! Emotions!"
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In A.I., a married couple takes in a robo-kid prototype (Haley Joel Osment) programmed to imprint on the woman, loving her and thinking of her as his real mother. But Martin, the couple's biological son, is miraculously cured of his sickness and released from suspended animation. Finding herself with a surplus of kids, the woman does the sensible thing and abandons the knockoff one in the middle of a forest while it cries and begs his "mom" to stop being such a colossal bitch.
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"Sorry, gotta go, but let's do lunch someday. I'm on Twitter at @MotherOfTheYear420."
As Gladstone already pointed out, that's when the movie stops being sorta-good, but it doesn't have to. The next time you have a chance to see it, try this: After Pinocchio Osment (or Pinos for short) gets left in the forest, immediately skip to the scene of him sitting on the ledge of a building, around the one-hour, 47-minute mark.
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