I'm Your Man

Name: I'm Your Man
Genre: Sci-Fi, Comedy, Romance
Released: September 24, 2021
Duration: 105 min
Rating: 78
Cast: Annika Meier, Dan Stevens, Falilou Seck, Hans Löw, Henriette Richter-R

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Bleecker Street Media | Release Date: September 24, 2021 | Not Rated

Starring: Annika Meier, Dan Stevens, Falilou Seck, Hans Löw, Henriette Richter-R, Jürgen Tarrach, Maren Eggert, Monika Oschek, Sandra Hüller, Wolfgang Hübsch

Summary: Alma (Maren Eggert) is a scientist coerced into participating in an extraordinary study in order to obtain research funds for her work. For three weeks, she has to live with a humanoid robot tailored to her character and needs, whose artificial intelligence is designed to be the perfect life partner for her. Enter Tom (Dan Stevens), aAlma (Maren Eggert) is a scientist coerced into participating in an extraordinary study in order to obtain research funds for her work. For three weeks, she has to live with a humanoid robot tailored to her character and needs, whose artificial intelligence is designed to be the perfect life partner for her. Enter Tom (Dan Stevens), a machine in human form in a class of its own, created solely to make her happy.
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Director: Maria Schrader

Genre(s): Sci-Fi, Comedy, Romance

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 105 min

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Polygon Roxana Hadadi

Sep 24, 2021

I’m Your Man offers a perspective on humanity that’s equally whimsical and melancholy, and its intimacy is a welcome change of pace in science fiction, a genre that too often mistakes violence and colonialism as the only drivers of drama. Read full review

Jeannette Catsoulis

Sep 23, 2021

Edging now and then into the surreal, this unusual and tender little movie gingerly interrogates the gulf between digital and biological wiring. Read full review

Jim Slotek

Oct 13, 2021

I’m Your Man is certainly a metaphor for our increasingly intimate relationship with our own technology. Some have seen it as a direct reference to our intimacy with personae on social media, virtual relationships that exist at the expense of our connections with people in the real world. Whatever it is supposed to be, it is a smart and often witty take on a not exactly new sci-fi premise. Read full review

Sheri Linden

Mar 4, 2021

This is a comedy that finds poetry in unexpected places: the ancient cuneiform that Alma studies, and the invented past that Tom concocts to explain their romance. With sly humor and no small ache, I'm Your Man asks if we really want our fantasies to come true, and what happens when we fall in love. Read full review

Wendy Ide

Aug 14, 2021

It asks pertinent questions about loneliness and a world in which algorithms can know us better than our human partners ever will. Read full review

Alonso Duralde

Sep 24, 2021

The rom-com veneer acts as the sugar that lets the film’s more serious medicine go down, and Schrader understands this territory well. Read full review

The Guardian Peter Bradshaw

Aug 12, 2021

I was disappointed with a film whose crises and dilemmas seem laborious and essentially predictable; it does not fully work as sci-fi or satire or comedy. Read full review

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Bradh6886

Jan 16, 2022

I'M YOUR MAN is a charming and unique film on the human experience. The premise introduces itself cleverly and surprisingly never runs stale. Worried it could've gone for too much social commentary but the comedic airs kept it upbeat and downright funny. Great lead performance.

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bertobellamy

Jul 9, 2022

'I'm Your Man' isn't just another cautionary tale about the dangers of technology replacing humans; with intelligent comedy and a stellar performance by Dan Stevens, the film brilliantly portrays the ever present dissatisfaction feeling that makes us humans.

The movie follows a german'I'm Your Man' isn't just another cautionary tale about the dangers of technology replacing humans; with intelligent comedy and a stellar performance by Dan Stevens, the film brilliantly portrays the ever present dissatisfaction feeling that makes us humans.

The movie follows a german archeologist that takes part in a tech test to gain favor from his boss: she spends three weeks with a humanoid robot designed to make her happy. Of course, there are some traces of 'Her,' 'Ex-Machina,' and other AI-centric sci-fi films, but 'I'm Your Man' cleverly uses the romantic comedy tropes to explore the feelings of a lonely woman that stumbles with the elusive chance of being happy, or at least the illusion of it.

This movie will make you laugh and even cry if you relate to Alma's conflict, but the most important thing about it it's the existential questions it asks and the answers it doesn't provide. Funny, romantic, and witty, 'I'm Your Man' it's sci-fi done right, and it even doesn't bother with being one!… Expand

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badshaped

Oct 19, 2021

This movie tried to be to many things at the same time. But it failed to be at least one thing great - movie itself. Its a nice film to see it once, but nothing more.

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TVJerry

Oct 12, 2021

For a German import, this romance is surprisingly (and somewhat disappointedly) formulaic. It’s even been described as a romcom, but Germans aren't know for their “com." Maren Eggert plays a stern art researcher with a rather bland life. As part of an experiment, she’s assigned to live withFor a German import, this romance is surprisingly (and somewhat disappointedly) formulaic. It’s even been described as a romcom, but Germans aren't know for their “com." Maren Eggert plays a stern art researcher with a rather bland life. As part of an experiment, she’s assigned to live with a humanoid robot who’s been designed to be her perfect partner (Dan Stevens speaking German well). Naturally, she resists his easy, digital charms, while his algorithms work hard to adjust to her needs. Even with this considerably advance tech, there’s nothing else about the film that’s technologically advanced. The performances are fine and the direction keeps it moving. Basically, it’s a sweet little story that considers, yet again, whether tech advancements really help improve our lives. (German with subtitles)… Expand

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