Christopher Ford was awarded a Sloan Production grant at NYU in 2003 for Robot and Frank now an comedy directed by Jake Schreier, featuring Liv Tyler, James Marsden, Susan Sarandon, Liev Schreiber (as the voice of the robot), and Frank Langella. The story follows Frank, an old man who is starting to forget things. One day his son brings him a special surprise, a caretaker robot.