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Also known as EX_MACHINA

2014 film directed by Alex Garland

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7.6

Caleb, a coder at the world's largest internet company, wins a competition to spend a week at a private mountain retreat belonging to Nathan, the reclusive CEO of the company. But when Caleb arrives at the remote location he finds that he will have to participate in a strange and fascinating experiment in which he must interact with the world's first true artificial intelligence, housed in the body of a beautiful robot girl.

Released: 2015-01-21108 minDir: Alex GarlandDrama, Science FictionBudget: $15.0MBox office: $36.9M

Cast

  • Domhnall Gleeson as Caleb
  • Alicia Vikander as Ava
  • Oscar Isaac as Nathan
  • Sonoya Mizuno as Kyoko
  • Corey Johnson as Jay
  • Claire Selby as Lily

Themes

  • android
  • dancing
  • friendship
  • man vs machine
  • distrust
  • artificial intelligence (a.i.)
  • isolation
  • technology
  • manipulation
  • high technology

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Ratings

IMDb

7.7/10

640,578 votes

Year
2014
Runtime
108 min
Genres
Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller

via IMDb

Key facts

Directed by
Alex Garland
Written by
Alex Garland
Produced by
Andrew Macdonald Allon Reich
Starring
Domhnall Gleeson Alicia Vikander Oscar Isaac
Cinematography
Rob Hardy
Edited by
Mark Day
Music by
Ben Salisbury Geoff Barrow
Production companies
Film4 DNA Films
Distributed by
A24 (United States) Universal Pictures International (International)
Release dates
16 December 2014 ( 2014-12-16 ) ( BFI Southbank ) 21 January 2015 ( 2015-01-21 ) (United Kingdom) 10 April 2015 ( 2015-04-10 ) (United States)
Running time
108 minutes
Countries
United Kingdom United States
Language
English
Budget
$15 million
Box office
$37.3 million

via Wikipedia infobox

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Encyclopedic overview

Ex Machina is a 2014 science fiction film, written and directed by Alex Garland in his directorial debut. It stars Domhnall Gleeson, Alicia Vikander, and Oscar Isaac. It follows a programmer who is invited by his CEO to administer the Turing test to an intelligent female humanoid robot.

Ex Machina premiered at the BFI Southbank on 16 December 2014. It was released in the United Kingdom on 21 January 2015, by Universal Pictures International, and in the United States on 10 April 2015, by A24. It grossed over $36.8 million worldwide on a $15 million budget.

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