Marjorie Prime

Panorama

""This Quiet Sci-Fi Is the Best Kind of Virtual Insanity""

Vanity Fair
  • Archive - Festival 33
  • Director: Michael Almereyda
  • USA 2016
  • 99 minutes
  • English
  • Subtitles in Hebrew

In a not-too-far-off future, octogenarian widow Marjorie reconnects with her deceased husband. Or, rather, with an artificial intelligence hologram of his younger self who feeds off the information he gleans through conversations with her. It’s an opportunity for Marjorie not only to relive her past, but to reshape it.

Driven by virtuoso performances from its powerhouse cast, the new film from Michael Almereyda poses provocative questions about love, technology, memory, and mortality.

Filmography: Experimenter (2015), Cymbeline (2014), Hamlet (2000), The Eternal (1998), Nadja (1994), Another Girl, Another Planet (1993), Twister (1989).


  • Director Michael Almereyda
  • Production Uri Singer
  • Script Michael Almereyda, adapted from the play by Jordan Harrison
  • Cinematography Sean Williams
  • Editing Kathryn J. Schubert
  • Music Mica Levi
  • Festivals Sundance, Rotterdam, San Francisco
  • Actors Jon Hamm, Tim Robbins, Geena Davis, Lois Smith
  • Source BB Film Productions, Encino