Release Date: April 12th, 2013
DVD Release Date: September 17th, 2013
R|1 hr 55 min
Plot Summary
A youth becomes a victim of cyberbullying in one of three tales centered around the impact of the Internet on people's lives.
Cast: Jason Bateman, Hope Davis, Frank Grillo, Michael Nyqvist, Paula Patton, Andrea Riseborough, Alexander Skarsgård, Max Thieriot
Director: Henry Alex Rubin
Genres: Drama
Production Co: Wonderful Films
Distributors: LD Entertainment
The structure is sheer contrivance — three narratives intricately interlocked — while the plot amounts to a convenience store of variably credible, or borderline incredible, strands. Yet the film is impressive all the same. show more
Disconnect is an Eleanor Rigby movie. Look at all the lonely people. A "Crash" for the Internet age, Alex Henry Rubin's topical opus swoops down like an alien spaceship to investigate a disparate group of Earthlings living in close proximity in the suburbs of New York City. show more
Disconnect is naturally gripping. Using unforgiving closeups, Rubin pokes into unexpected corners— not least the different ways in which men and women respond to calamity — and never forces his story's social-media scares to improbable heights. show more
