Operator (2016)

Indie type comedy/drama 'Operator' stars (the under used) Martin Starr as a possibility Aspergers Chicago area computer programmer who enlists his hotel clerk/ aspiring performer wife Mae Whitman to voice a new interactive customer service telephone interface for a major healthcare provider. In the course of the film Starr's character starts to prefer his programmed to please creation over his real life wife causing a potentially permanent break in their marriage. While the 'millennial' sensibilities of the film might at first make it seem as though it could end too soft on coddling and selfishness it does not, and it is nice to see Starr given perhaps the most taxing role of his career. Nat Faxon and Cameron Esposito round out the cast and there is even a subplot about Starr's mother (played by Christine Lahti, nice to see her) not taking proper care of her Addison's Disease. ***