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Marjorie Prime (15.)


Directed by Michael Almereyda



Starring Jon Hamm, Geena Davis, Tim Robbins, Lois Smith. 97 mins



Marjorie Prime imagines a future where we can grow our own ghosts; Primes, virtual representations of departed love ones that people can fill up with, sometimes unreliable, memories of their time together. Encouraged by her son-in-law Robbins, 85-year-old Marjorie (Smith) has a Prime version of her husband, Hamm, as he was when they first got married.


This is a small scale, single location drama; the kind where people talk in cold looking rooms, while classical music plays on the soundtrack. Actors love these projects because it is pure acting, unencumbered by any running about: theatre but softly spoken and without the bother of having to turn up every night or learn all the lines. It is of course based on a play but the writing is subtle and persuasive and Almereyda's adaptation gives it a menacing undertone. It doesn't though quite make enough of its theme of the vagaries of memory.


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