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DCPL and the Environmental Film Festival showing of "The Wild Robot" (2024).
Partnering with the Environmental Film Festival, Woodridge Library will be showing The Wild Robot (2024). One FREE set of the books by Peter Brown will be given away to a lucky winner, thanks to
ABOUT THE FILM (IMDb)
Short Description: After a shipwreck, an intelligent robot called Roz is stranded on an uninhabited island. To survive the harsh environment, Roz bonds with the island's animals and cares for an orphaned baby goose.
A Universal Dynamics cargo ship loses five ROZZUM robots during a storm, leaving them stranded on an uninhabited island. Only ROZZUM Unit 7134, nicknamed "Roz," survives and is accidentally activated by curious wildlife. Initially, Roz frightens the animals and injures herself while attempting to assist them. Though she learns to communicate in their language, she struggles to find anyone who needs her services. While signaling for retrieval, Roz is struck by lightning and attacked by animals. In the chaos, she accidentally crushes a goose nest, leaving a single unhatched egg.
Determined to protect the egg, Roz defends it from a hungry fox named Fink. When the egg hatches into a gosling, the chick imprints on Roz, and in the process of caring for it, her long-range transponder is damaged. With advice from Pinktail, a wise opossum, Roz learns how to care for the gosling, whom she names Brightbill. Fink, now an ally, helps Roz build a shelter, and the unlikely trio begins to coexist. As Brightbill grows, he learns to swim but faces ridicule from other geese. When Brightbill discovers Roz inadvertently caused the death of his family, he angrily flies away.
During this time, Roz repairs another ROZZUM unit named Rummage, who advises her to return to the labs. Roz, however, feels a growing sense of purpose in helping the animals. She seeks Longneck, the geese's leader, and with his blessing and the assistance of Thunderbolt, a skilled falcon, she teaches Brightbill to fly. Brightbill masters the skill and joins the geese's migration, leaving Roz to ponder her purpose. She briefly reactivates her transponder but shuts it off upon realizing Universal Dynamics is tracking her.
As winter approaches, a thunderstorm forces the geese to shelter in a Universal Dynamics greenhouse. A contamination alert triggers an attack by RECO robots, which are defeated through the animals' collective efforts and Longneck's ultimate sacrifice. Roz and Fink rally the animals to survive a brutal snowstorm, fostering unity among the island's inhabitants. However, the effort drains Roz, and she powers down. When spring arrives, Roz awakens to find the animals thriving in harmony, with Brightbill returning as a celebrated hero.
Before Roz can fully reunite with Brightbill, Universal Dynamics sends a retrieval robot, Vontra, to recover her. Roz flees with Fink, but Vontra dispatches RECO units to track them down. In a climactic battle, the island's animals unite to fend off the RECOs. Though Vontra captures Roz and triggers a forest fire during the fight, the animals manage to extinguish the flames. Brightbill attacks Vontra's drop ship, and Roz, though severely damaged, reboots just in time to destroy Vontra and escape with Brightbill before the drop ship explodes.
Recognizing the danger she brings to the island, Roz decides to leave, promising to return one day. Months later, Roz works in a Universal Dynamics greenhouse, secretly retaining her memories of the island. True to his word, Brightbill finds her, and the two embrace, reunited once more.
AGE GROUP: | 5 - 12 Years Old | 13 - 19 Years Old (Teens) |
EVENT TYPE: | Film |
