The Electric Grandmother (1982)
- Directed by
- Noel Black
- Genre
- tv movie, science fiction, family
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h
- Rating
- 7.0 of 10 from 10 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A family hires a robotic grandmother to care for their children after the mother's death. The grandmother helps the children adjust to their new lives with kindness and patience.
warmgentlewhimsicaltendernostalgicfamily-orientedthoughtfulhopeful
What happens
The Electric Grandmother is a television movie that originally aired January 17, 1982, on NBC as a 60-minute Project Peacock special, based on the 1969 science fiction short story "I Sing the Body Electric" by Ray Bradbury. It stars Maureen Stapleton and Edward Herrmann and was directed by Noel Black. Bradbury's story was originally written as a teleplay in 1962 as "I Sing the Body Electric", an episode of The Twilight Zone. The film was distributed on VHS by Coronet Video. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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