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Simulant

Simulant

20235.91h 35m

Overview

Faye attempts to replace her newly deceased husband, Evan, with an android simulant (SIM). Although SIM Evan appears like human Evan in every way, Faye does not feel the same love for SIM Evan as it does for her. SIM Evan tries to win Faye back while at the same time being on-the-run from a government agent chasing down SIMs who have become “conscious” and could potentially be a threat to humankind.

Directed by April Mullen
Written by Ryan Christopher Churchill, Tim Doiron
Produced by James van der Woerd, Tim Doiron
Box Office0Revenue: $53K

Top Cast

Robbie Amell

Robbie Amell

Evan

Jordana Brewster

Jordana Brewster

Faye

Simu Liu

Simu Liu

Casey

Sam Worthington

Sam Worthington

Kessler

Alicia Sanz

Alicia Sanz

Esmé

Masa Lizdek

Masa Lizdek

Lisa

Christine L. Nguyen

Christine L. Nguyen

Ying Hong

Emmanuel Kabongo

Emmanuel Kabongo

Joshua

Samantha Helt

Samantha Helt

Morgan

Conrad Coates

Conrad Coates

Supervisor Abendjor

Themes & Keywords

androidartificial intelligence (a.i.)synthetic humansynthhuman android relationshipmalfunctioning android

About Simulant

Simulant is a science fiction, thriller film released in 2023 exploring themes of android, artificial intelligence (a.i.), synthetic human, synth, human android relationship, malfunctioning android. Directed by April Mullen, it stars Robbie Amell, Jordana Brewster, Simu Liu. Faye attempts to replace her newly deceased husband, Evan, with an android simulant (SIM). Although SIM Evan appears like human Evan in every way, Faye does not feel the same love for SIM Evan as it does for her. SIM Evan tries to win Faye back while at the same time being on-the-run from a government agent chasing down SIMs who have become “conscious” and could potentially be a threat to humankind.

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