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Wifelike

2022 · 105 min

A chilly, unsettling near-future thriller that blurs love and control, keeping you tense and uneasy as its mystery slowly tightens.

Directed by: James Bird
Genres: Science fiction, Mystery, Thriller
Starring: Elena Kampouris, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Doron Bell

Tagline: They're too human to be perfect. She's too perfect to be human.
Overview: A grieving detective in the near-future hunts down criminals who trade artificial humans on the black market. In the fight to end AI exploitation, an underground resistance attempts to infiltrate him by sabotaging the programming of the artificial human assigned as his companion to behave like his late wife. She begins to question her reality as memories of a past life begin to surface in a world where nothing is as it seems.

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Directed by: James Bird
Genres: Science fiction, Mystery, Thriller
Starring: Elena Kampouris, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Doron Bell

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Tone: darkstrength 3 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
eeriestrength 2 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: identity
obsession
grief
betrayal
technology
Places: big city
home
Era: near-future
Audience: adult
Form: twist ending
nonlinear
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence strong
Sex strong

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Scale	Value	0 to 10
Action	5
Horror	4
Humour	2
Realism	6
Romance	5
Tension	7
Darkness	8
Complexity	7
Emotional weight	7

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Genres: science fiction, mystery, thriller
Directed by: James Bird
Written by: James Bird
Starring: Elena Kampouris, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Doron Bell, Agam Darshi, Sara Sampaio, Alix Villaret, Fletcher Donovan, C.J. Perry Barnyashev
Music: Rich Walters
Cinematography: Nelson Talbot, Graham Talbot
Runtime: 105 min
Country: United States of America
Languages: English

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