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Title: A Quiet, Involving Character Study
Review: "Dopamine" starts out with a pretty rockin' title sequence, but the rest of the movie is something fairly different. It is a pretty well written, well acted character study about a dot-com programmer named Rand (John Livingston) who comes out of his emotional shell. Rand works at a start-up company trying to create a computer animated bird that responds to other people's emotions. In the process, Rand begins to respond to the emotions of a pre-school teacher, Sarah (Sabrina Lloyd), and discover his own feelings. As directed by Mark Decena, "Dopamine" captures pretty well the feel of a small, late 1990's San Francisco start-up full of big ideas but short on time and cash. To anyone who has been there, the moment when the characters in "Dopamine" fail to get their second round of funding from their angel investors will have definite resonance.
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