"great family film"??!!??!! are you kidding me? the whole concept is creepy, and there are some scenes -- that factory where they build the grandmother, and especially the grandmother plugged-in in the attic (or basement?) -- that I can't erase from my brain. I'll admit I was kind of a 'fraidy cat as a kid, but I had nightmares about this movie. Seriously, the whole electric grandmother thing has creeped me out for years. But no one understood because no one I know remembers seeing this movie! Anyone else haunted by this movie? It's probably not so scary now, but then again (and maybe it's just me) the whole human- looking-android-as-replacement-for-a-loved-one concept is pretty creepy in and of itself -- see also Haley Joel (& Jude) in A.I. (or don't, it's not so good). I'll take R2D2 and C3PO any day, thanks.

Today the world has lost a marvelous actress. What enormous talent! As I looked at the newspaper this morning, I saw this face I loved as a child smiling back at me. I concentrated hard to sift through the shadows and clouds of my childhood memories mixed with dreams to figure out who this face belonged to. It was Maureen Stapleton, our Electric Grandmother. The Electric Grandmother had such a wonderful, intense effect on me as a child, she must have stayed with me all this time. Now, I am excited to share her with my own children. Maureen Stapleton will be missed but she will also live on. We don't see many actresses like this anymore.

Although we didn't know each other at the time, me and my wife were in Kindergarten when this movie came out. Somehow this movie got in to our classrooms and freaked us out. We both went home thinking our Grandmothers were going to be turned into robots after they die. Then delivered back to us in a coffin by helicopter so that they could take care of us for the rest of our lives.It wouldn't have been so bad if our teachers offered any sort of explanation after the film.All in all the movie isn't bad. I recommend it to anyone that is into sci-fi Twilight Zone type of stuff.

Have you ever watched a movie and left breathless? Sat through 60 minutes of utterly heart-warming bliss? Experienced what some might call stability of the soul? Then you have also seen the Electric Grandmother. If not for rickety VHS tapes, I may never have experienced the glory of family films. This film has it all,comedy, drama,family values, sibling rivalry, and most of all: a robotic caretaker. Which leads to the greater theme of loving relationships between humans and androids. Does the grandmother really care about the kids? or is she just programmed to act that way? Is she satisfying the family's need for a mother or is she perpetuating their sadness because she too will not be around forever... Seriously, you guys, this is so not to be missed! More people need to watch this film so that less people will say I am crazy for knowing of its existence. Amazing cinema people.