2016 1h 27min Joe (Martin Starr) and his wife Emily (Mae Whitman) are happily married. Joe is a programmer and is working on AI communication software for a medical insurance client. When the voice he proposes is rejected, he asks his wife to work on some demos for his project. She's a huge hit, and this creates some problems--mainly that Joe becomes obsessed with his wife's voice. Not her real one, but the recorded one and the artificial personality that goes along with it. It gets to the point where he calls her at all hours of the day and night. Joe is subject to panic attacks, and also has to deal with his, shall we say "eccentric" mother, played brilliantly by Christine Lahti. I found the film to be quite thought provoking, and I enjoyed the fact that it didn't have one of those "and they all lived happily after" endings. (Warning:there are several movies with the same title.)
4 out of 5 stars
Streaming on Kanopy, Tubi, and other platforms.
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