"I do not have the programming to be a mother," she says at one point. This is The Wild Robot’s sweet spot ... overworked motherhood incarnate, in possum form) and Bill Nighy, in retrospect ...

“The Wild Robot” is often a story about programing — natural and artificial — and how that can help and hinder. “I do not have the programing to be a mother,” Roz tells a mother possum ...