THE ANDROID AFFAIR

THE ANDROID AFFAIR

In the future medical students learn surgery by experimenting on android clones...they act as teachers in which the med students can also operate on. One particular student doctor is assigned to learn from William, a particularly weird 'Teach' who wants out of the guinea pig business. This movie is a remake of an episode of "Perverse Destiny" called TEACH 109 starring Jason Patric, Anne Heche and James Earl Jones, one which I am still trying to find. I never saw it, but it was a half hour TV episode. This movie was actually pretty decent, and I'd like to see the original. Like an upgraded 'Outer Limits' episode, the production value is TV Movie quality...because I guess it was a TV movie.

William is a bit of a nut, but he wants a human life, the frigid doctor hasn't learned to treat anyone as 'human' so the pair sets out on a journey to discover their 'humanity.' It not as bad as you might expect by looking at the cover, and is more comedic than anything. Which goes to show you can't judge a B-Movie by its cover. There's an actual plot going on, and a few twists and turns, and I can see this movie being remade once again with a bigger budget and being really entertaining. There's some crazy stuff you don't really expect, and this is why it goes a little beyond a good Outer Limits episode. William was created with a hidden purpose, and his original creators have disappeared. There's an interesting comment on how "Artificial Intelligence" might view its creator which is not what you'd expect. The actor who plays William does a better job than you'd expect, and has a lot of fun with his role. Writing credits acknowledge Isaac Asimov, so it does have a few more things to say, and it is fairly well done. Also stars Ossie Davis of BUBBA HOTEP and THE STAND fame...The only real flaws with this movie are that it could have used a bigger budget to expand the realism, and production value, and the actress certainly could have been better cast, but these things do not necessarily degrade this story. This is not a 'shit movie' and there's some fun stuff in this movie which is worth it.

The director, Richard Kletter is also the director of "The Tower" starring Paul Rieser which I am still also trying to locate, a rare film about a building controlled by a computer... there are two films called the Tower about a building controlled by a computer, and i hope to review both of them sooner or later.

Android Affair is currently only available on VHS, and the DVDs of Perverse Destiny are hard to come by and expensive.