Her (2013)

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    D: Spike Jonze
    Joaquin Phoenix,  Scarlett Johansson, Amy Adams,
    Rooney Mara, Olivia Wilde, Matt Letscher, Chris Pratt
Shades of "Ruby Sparks" in a romantic comedy about the relationship between a guy and his operating system. The setting's unreal: an affluent, immaculate and apparently crime-free future Los Angeles. The guy's played by Joaquin Phoenix, and like Paul Dano's character in "Ruby Sparks", he's a writer, and things start to get tricky when the supposedly artificial entity he's involved with decides to explore her own rapidly expanding potential. The premise sounds far-fetched, but wait. The next time you're on the train or the bus, check out how many people are riding with their heads down, lost in a world where nothing exists beyond their thumbs and their digital toys. Who knows what they're up to? Maybe it's this. Also, the voice of the operating system is Scarlett Johansson. Maybe a guy could fall for something like that.