KIMI
Angela Childs is a tech analyst who reviews data streams for the Amygdala Corporation, purveyor of the voice-activated companion server KIMI. Amidst a pandemic, even though restrictions have eased, Angela suffers from agoraphobia and follows a strict routine within the safety of her loft apartment in downtown Seattle. Between computer breaks, Angela flirts – among other things – with her neighbor across the street, and communicates with her mother, her dentist, and her therapist via video chat, proving she never needs to leave the comforts of home. But that changes when she hears something horrific in one of the streams she is analyzing. Reporting it over email is deemed too risky, so a trusted co-worker advises Angela to go to their head office downtown and speak directly to executive Natalie Chowdhury and alert her to what Angela is certain is a serious crime. But Angela hasn't ventured outside since before the pandemic. Just getting to the office is a huge challenge, but she's determined to do the right thing. But Angela has no idea what will actually happen when – and if – she's able to step out of her comfort zone. screenplay David Koepp cinematography Peter Andrews editing Mary Ann Bernard music Cliff Martinez sound Larry Blake production design Philip Messina costumes Ellen Mirojnick cast Zoë Kravitz (Angela Childs) Derek DelGaudio (Bradley Hasling) Jacob Vargas (Glasses Thug) Byron Bowers (Terry Hughes) Robin Givens (Angela's Mother) Rita Wilson (Natalie Chowdhury) Jaime Camil (Antonio Rivas) Charles Halford (Tall Thug) Erika Christensen (Samantha Gerrity) Devin Ratray (Kevin) producers David Koepp Michael Polaire productions Warner Bros. Pictures New Line Cinema Steven Soderbergh is a writer, director, producer, cinematographer, and editor. He most recently directed the features No Sudden Move and Let Them All Talk, which debuted on HBO Max in July 2021 and December 2020, respectively. His television film Behind The Candelabra, for which he won a 2013 Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing, debuted on HBO in May of that year. He earned the Academy Award in 2000 for directing Traffic, and in the same year was nominated for Erin Brockovich. Soderbergh earlier gained an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay for sex, lies, and videotape, his feature film directorial debut. That film also won the Palme d'Or at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival. Among his other credits are the HBO limited series Mosaic, the 2014-2015 Cinemax series The Knick, and the HBO series K Street, and the films The Laundromat, High Flying Bird, Unsane, Logan Lucky, Side Effects, Magic Mike, Haywire, Contagion, And Everything is Going Fine, The Informant!, The Girlfriend Experience, Che, the Ocean's Trilogy, The Good German, Bubble, Solaris, Full Frontal, The Limey, Out of Sight, Schizopolis, Gray's Anatomy, The Underneath, King of the Hill, and Kafka. His film Equilibrium, one of a trio of short eroticism-themed films