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Operator (2016)

Operator poster
Directed by
Logan Kibens
Genre
comedy drama
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 27m
Rating
5.8 of 10 from 70 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A happily married couple decides to use each other in their professional work. He is a programmer who tracks his own data obsessively and she is a budding comedy performer. This decision creates challenges for their relationship.

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What happens

Operator is a 2016 American comedy-drama film directed by Logan Kibens from a screenplay by Sharon Greene and Logan Kibens. It stars Martin Starr as Joe, a programmer and obsessive self-quantifier, and Mae Whitman as Emily, a budding comedy performer, who are a happily married couple until they decide to use one another in their work. Nat Faxon, Cameron Esposito, Retta, and Christine Lahti co-star. The film had its world premiere at the SXSW Film Festival on March 12, 2016 and was released by The Orchard on November 8, 2016. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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