Her ***½

Spike Jonze directed this Romance/Drama. Watch Preview. Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, Amy Adams, Rooney Mara, Olivia Wilde, Scarlett Johansson. Rated R for language, sexual content and brief graphic nudity. Running time is two hours and six minutes.

A lonely man's relationship with a computer program's OS voice deepens into eventual love.

Since this is set slightly in the future this film could be classed as Sci-Fi, but in my opinion something like this could happen in the next few years. It's a rather unique story and as it progressed I started wondering how they were going to resolve the obvious quandary, but resolve it they did. The cast is excellent although the bulk of the film is carried by Phoenix and the voice of Johansson. Wilde is onscreen for only a few minutes. The film is too long and I did get a bit restless at times but the plot was so unusual it quickly got me involved again. There is an odd surrogate sequence that doesn't really make any sense and could easily have been excised, but that's a minor point. This is  one of the more interesting films I've seen in awhile and I do recommend it.

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