Disconnect stars Jason Bateman and Alexander Skarsgård in a world where everyone is just trying to connect… online
By Genna Patterson
The first feature length movie by Henry Alex Rubin (director of documentary Murderball) shows a group of people searching for human connection online. The problem is, everything you post online, someone can see.
The movie examines the destructive potential of sharing information on the internet, and follows three separate stories. It examines and reinforces societies’ obsession with all things cyber and questions the trust people put in strangers they haven’t even met in person.
The first story focuses on a young boy who becomes the victim of cyber bullying, the second on a man who takes his clothes off for money online and the third on a couple whose identity is stolen (Alexander Skarsgård and Paula Patton).
The script was penned by Andrew Stern (Return to Me, Nurses) and is already receiving rave reviews. Disconnect stars True Blood’s Skarsgård, Arrested Development’s Jason Bateman and In Treatment’s Hope Davis. Bateman plays the father of the boy being cyber bullied with Davis as his wife. Disconnect is due for release in Europe in the summer with no definitive date set for Ireland just yet.
