In a world where technology has so much influence in the lives of children, there’s always going to be an underlying fear for parents that their kids will struggle to make real connections.
As parents themselves, it was important for Ron’s Gone Wrong writer-director Sarah Smith and writer Peter Baynham to demonstrate a balance between that fear and the reality that this technology is not inherently a bad thing.The film follows Barney Pudowski (Jack Dylan Grazer), a lonely middle-schooler who has trouble connecting with his classmates who all have B*Bots, a robot companion that claims to be “your best friend out of the box.” After a disappointing birthday, his father surprises him with a B*Bot named Ron (Zach Galifianakis).
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