![Amy (Valene Kane) and Abu Bilel Al-Britani (Shazad Latif) play a 21st century version of cat-and-mouse over a computer screen as they work to deceive each other in “Profile.” Photo Credit: Focus Features](/images/resized/images/news/2016/320_may21/9_100_100.jpg)
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Running Time: 105 minutes
This movie from Focus Features will be playing at open cinemas and drive-ins on May 14.
Over the past few years, several films have attempted to tell a story exclusively using social media. Such efforts have included the Unfriended horror series, as well as the 2018 John Cho thriller Searching. Writer/director Timur Bekmambetov (Night Watch, Wanted, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter) was an executive producer of the first franchise and has now decided to try to create his own film set entirely on a computer screen. The result is Profile, based on a true story from French journalist Anna Erelle.
It doesn’t all work, but at...