Marjorie Prime (2017)

Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Mystery

Director: Michael Almereyda
Writers: Michael Almereyda, Jordan Harrison
Starring: Stephanie Andujar, Hana Colley, Geena Davis, Hannah Gross

Eighty-six-year-old Marjorie spends her final, ailing days with a computerized version of her deceased husband. With the intent to recount their life together, Marjorie's "Prime" relies on the information from her and her kin to develop a more complex understanding of his history. As their interactions deepen, the family begins to develop ever diverging recounts of their lives, drawn into the chance to reconstruct the often painful past.

Built around exceptional performances from a veteran cast, Marjorie Prime shines a light on an often-obscured corner in the world of artificial intelligence and its interactions with mortality. Bringing us robustly into the future, Michael Almaryeda's poetic film forces us to face the question-If we had the opportunity, how would we choose to rebuild the past, and what would we decide to forget?

Plot summary from IMDb: In the near future, a time of artificial intelligence: 86-year-old Marjorie - a jumble of disparate, fading memories - has a handsome new companion who looks like her deceased husband and is programmed to feed the story of her life back to her. What would we remember, and what would we forget, if given the chance? MARJORIE PRIME is based on Jordan Harrison's Pulitzer-nominated play, exploring memory and identity, love and loss

Awards: 2 wins & 6 nominations.
Runtime: 99 min
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