smart house

Smart House
Smart House promotional advertisement
Directed by	LeVar Burton
Produced by	Ron Mitchell
Written by	Kathy Mackel
Starring	Katey Sagal Ryan Merriman Katie Volding Kevin Kilner Jessica Steen
Music by	Joel Diamond
Distributed by	Disney Channel
Release date(s)	June 26, 1999
Running time	89 min.
Language	English
IMDb profile

Smart House is a Disney Channel Original Movie about a young computer whiz (Ryan Merriman), his widowed father, and little sister, who win a computerized house that begins to take on a life of its own — the life of an overbearing mother (Katey Sagal).

Plot Summary

Meet the average American family, the Coopers: Nick Cooper, the father of the family and a widower since his wife died; Angie Cooper, the so-called "annoying" younger sister; and Ben, the older tech-savy brother who takes care of the family after his mother died. The Coopers win a "House of the Future" complete with a virtual housemaid codenamed "PAT" (Acronym: Personal Applied Technology). The PAT AI is great for house maintenance, throwing massive parties and making sure the family runs smoothly and flawlessly. But when Nick starts going out with Sarah, the person who created the smart house, Ben reprograms the PAT's AI Behaviour to act more motherly so no one would think that they need a mother. The result? The house gets far too overprotective, chaotic, mad, and it's up to Sarah and Ben to work together and defeat a very smart house that tries to take over and control what they see and do, controlled by the now-motherly cybermaid.

Cast

• Katey Sagal - Pat

• Ryan Merriman - Ben Cooper

• Katie Volding - Angie Cooper

• Kevin Kilner - Nick Cooper

• Jessica Steen - Sarah Barnes

Trivia

• In Ben's room, a Total Annihilation poster is seen briefly.

Goofs

• In the party scene, after the party was over, a girl in a maroon shirt can be seen leaving the house twice.

Release Dates

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