William Hurt plays the character Professor Allen Hobby in the 2001 science fiction film "A.I. Artificial Intelligence". Professor Hobby was a genius...and a troubled soul. He was a doctor who created a boy named David (Haley Joel Osment), an innovative Mecha at Cybertronics. David was both an experiment and an attempt to replicate a loved one (a boy programmed with the ability to love). Dr. Hobby's efforts had serious consequences which even he couldn't envision.

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