• Tenderness

  • Eric Freiser
  • 2011
  • Available
  • No Agent
  • 81.7
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Market: Tue, 08 Mar 2011
Director: John Patrick Shanley
Manager (Echo Lake)
ProductionEcho Lake
In the not too distant future, female androids run aplenty in service to Male-Kind. When one of them malfunctions and murders a client, a security specialist is assigned to bring her in.
When a beautiful artificial intelligence robot kills a man and goes rogue, an ex-cop working for the company who made her is sent to find her but finds himself in the middle of a scandal.
In a futuristic world where a company produces female robots, an employee sets out on a chase after a rogue robot that kills its client.
Film
Film, Action, Drama, Sci-fi, Futuristic
117
R
High
M
White / European
40
Attractive
I Robot, Surrogates, Ai
Future, Approximately 4 days
Futuristic urban city - house, corporate building int & ext, a dilapidated neighborhood, cars, apartment buildings, run-down homes, clothing store, elevator, terraces, stairwells, alleyways, basements, dens, freeways, overpass, train tracks, empty field, access roads, police station, liquor store, bathroom, coffee house, bar, diner.
WAYNE GARRICK (40) enters the home of FRANK TRAVERS (40) who has stolen something that belongs to Envirodyne, the corporation that Garrick works for. Garrick tells Travers to give it up. As Travers considers, his beautiful spouse walks into the room and sits next to him. He tells her to run but Garrick shoots her in the back. Travers is distraught but Garrick does not care. He turns her over to reveal that she is an android, the very thing that Travers had stolen.

Back at headquarters, Garrick delivers the android and is assigned to another mission by his superiors, ANNE (50) and MASSEY (40): to track down a rogue female android known as Amanda who murdered one of their clients.

Garrick accepts and starts by tracking her whereabouts in an area known as the Zone: a run-down part of town, where female androids (Props) are used as prostitutes. The Props cannot exit the Zone or else they explode. First, Garrick inspects the crime scene and from there he visits his old partner, KRIEGER (40) who keeps track of Props for a living. Krieger directs Garrick to a local clothing store owner who knows about every Prop there is. The owner reluctantly tells Garrick that...