Advantageous
A mother facing economic erasure accepts a corporate identity-transfer procedure whose promise of security threatens the fragile bond with her daughter.
Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Slow
- Intensity
- Strong
- Complexity
- Layered
- Violence
- Mild
- austere
- eerie
- melancholic
- quiet evening
- thought provoking movie night
What critics said
Critics broadly admired the film's ambitious feminist ideas, realistic performances, and resourceful future-world design, while finding its methodical pacing and unconventional structure uneven.
What sets it apart
May contain story progression spoilers
Gwen's professional displacement and the corporation's preference for a younger body expose institutional demands placed on women.
Gwen's efforts to preserve stability and joy with Jules are shaped by unemployment, status anxiety, and corporate control.
The near-future city combines opulence and hardship with quiet, sterile spaces and sophisticated low-budget effects.
The mind-transfer premise and the presence of Gwen 2.0 complicate personal identity and emotional continuity.
Films like Advantageous, and why
The Lobster
near-future social inequality, corporate pressure, and an intimate feminist science-fiction drama
Never Let Me Go
identity instability, dystopian institutions, and cerebral speculative drama
Equals
low-budget speculative world-building, economic precarity, and emotionally restrained science fiction
The Handmaid's Tale
women-centered dystopian themes, bodily autonomy, and unsettling identity transformation
Movie Details
- Director
- Jennifer Phang
- Release Date
- 2015-06-23
- Runtime
- 92 min
- Rating
- 6.0 / 10 (168)
Cast
- Jacqueline Kim
- James Urbaniak
- Freya Adams
- Ken Jeong
- Jennifer Ehle
- Samantha Kim
- Troi Zee
- Olivia Horton
- Jennifer Ikeda
- Mercedes Griffeth
Where to watch in United States
- Rent
- Amazon Video, Apple TV Store
- Buy
- Amazon Video, Apple TV Store
Streaming options come from TMDB and change over time.
Common questions
- What is Advantageous about?
- A mother facing economic erasure accepts a corporate identity-transfer procedure whose promise of security threatens the fragile bond with her daughter.
- What is Advantageous like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of Advantageous as slow, its intensity as strong and its storytelling as layered.
- Is Advantageous violent?
- Only mildly. Ember rates the violence in Advantageous as mild.
- What did critics think of Advantageous?
- Critics broadly admired the film's ambitious feminist ideas, realistic performances, and resourceful future-world design, while finding its methodical pacing and unconventional structure uneven.
- Which films are like Advantageous?
- Films with a similar feel include The Lobster, Never Let Me Go, Equals, and The Handmaid's Tale.
- How long is Advantageous?
- Advantageous runs 92 minutes.
- Where can I watch Advantageous?
- In United States, Advantageous is available to rent or buy from Amazon Video, Apple TV Store.
