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''I'm Your Man'' is a 2021 German [[MixAndMatch romantic dramedy science fiction]] film directed and co-written by Maria Schrader, starring Creator/DanStevens and Maren Eggert.

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''I'm Your Man'' is a 2021 German [[MixAndMatch [[GenreMashup romantic dramedy science fiction]] film directed and co-written by Maria Schrader, starring Creator/DanStevens and Maren Eggert.
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* RoboticSpouse / SexBot : The purpose of Tom and the other androids is "lifelong companionship". Although this could mean a lifelong friend, sex and romance seem to be the default assumptions.

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* RoboticSpouse / SexBot : RoboticSpouse: The purpose of Tom and the other androids is "lifelong companionship". Although this could mean a lifelong friend, sex and romance seem to be the default assumptions.
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* RoboticReveal: The Employee who introduces Alma to the experiment and serves as the main point of contact is revealed to ''also'' be a robot.

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* BadLiar: Played with. Tom is actually an ''incredibly'' good liar, capable of coming up with elaborate, seamless stories, but the fact that he info-dumps it all at once means it ends up unnerving people. After this happens with Julian regarding how they met, Alma tells Tom to just say he's a "colleague from London."



* ConsummateLiar: Tom doesn't go out of his way to do it, but he's capable of coming up with seamless, elaborate lies off the top of his head.



* InfoDump: At first, Tom has a habit of offering a great deal of highly specific information when prompted.




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* UglyGuyHotWife: A heavy, middle-aged man, Dr. Stuber, has a companion robot similar to Tom named Chloe.
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* BadLiar: Played with. Tom is actually an ''incredibly'' good liar, capable of coming up with elaborate, seamless stories, but the fact that he info-dumps it all at once means it ends up unnerving people. After this happens with Julian regarding how they met, Alma tells Tom to just say he's a "colleague from London."
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* ButNotTooForeign: The in-universe explanation for Dan Stevens speaking German with an English accent. According to the brain scan, Alma is attracted to men who are foreign, but not ''so'' foreign as to be exotic; to a German woman, an Englishman checks all the boxes.

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[[caption-width-right:185:"Ninety-three percent of women dream of something like this." "Guess which group I belong in."]]

A researcher at the Pergamon museum in Berlin reluctantly agrees to live for three weeks with a humanoid robot designed to be her perfect man. What follows is an exploration of love, loneliness, and what it means to be alive.

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''I'm Your Man'' is a 2021 German [[MixAndMatch romantic dramedy science fiction]] film directed and co-written by Maria Schrader, starring Creator/DanStevens and Maren Eggert.

Dr. Alma Feiser (Eggert), an archaeologist
at the Pergamon museum Museum in Berlin Berlin, reluctantly agrees to live for three weeks with Tom (Stevens), a humanoid robot designed to be her perfect man. What follows is an exploration of love, loneliness, and what it means to be alive.
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* SillyRabbitRomanceIsForKids: Alma seems to believe this, though it's clear she didn't always.

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* SillyRabbitRomanceIsForKids: Alma seems to believe this, though it's clear she didn't always.always.

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* RoboticSpouse / SexRobot : The purpose of Tom and the other androids is "lifelong companionship". Although this could mean a lifelong friend, sex and romance seem to be the default assumptions.

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* RoboticSpouse / SexRobot SexBot : The purpose of Tom and the other androids is "lifelong companionship". Although this could mean a lifelong friend, sex and romance seem to be the default assumptions.
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* RobotsThinkFaster: Tom seems to have built-in calculator and internet search functions and can use them with as much effort as a human accessing memories.
* RoboticSpouse / SexRobot : The purpose of Tom and the other androids is "lifelong companionship". Although this could mean a lifelong friend, sex and romance seem to be the default assumptions.
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* MachineMonotone: PlayedForLaughs to tease Alma's InnocentBigot boss.

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* MachineMonotone: PlayedForLaughs to tease Alma's InnocentBigot boss.[[FantasticRacism Alma's]] [[InnocentBigot boss]].
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* MachineMonotone: PlayedForLaughs to tease Alma's InnocentBigot boss.
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* ArtificialIntelligence: Tom. Created from "brain scans" of thousands of women, including Alma, He is intended to be her ideal mate, and flummoxed that she doesn't seem to want him to fulfill his purpose. Anyone not told otherwise readily accepts him as a human.
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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Alma tells the relationship evaluator that as Tom is designed only to do what she wants, there is no conflict and it's not a real relationship. The evaluator then asks Tom if he would increase the level of conflict in order to make Alma happier.

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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Alma tells the relationship evaluator that as Tom is designed only to do what she wants, makes her happy, there is no conflict and it's not a real relationship. The evaluator then asks Tom if he would increase the level of conflict in order to make Alma happier.
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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Alma tells the relationship evaluator that as Tom is designed only to do what she wants, there is no conflict and it's not a real relationship. The evaluator then asks Tom if he would increase the level of conflict in order to make Alma happier.
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* HollywoodAtheist: To some degree. Although she's been an atheist since she was a child, before any of the life events that soured her on idealism, she is definitely the sort of hardened cynic you expect from a HollywoodAtheist. It goes hand in hand with [[SillyRabbitLoveIsForKids her views on love]].

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* HollywoodAtheist: To some degree. Although she's been an atheist since she was a child, before any of the life events that soured her on idealism, she is definitely the sort of hardened cynic you expect from a HollywoodAtheist. It goes hand in hand with [[SillyRabbitLoveIsForKids [[SillyRabbitRomanceIsForKids her views on love]].
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* HollywoodAtheist: To some degree. Although she's been an atheist since she was a child, before any of the life events that soured her on idealism, she is definitely the sort of hardened cynic you expect from a HollywoodAtheist. It goes hand in hand with [SillyRabbitLoveIsForKids her views on love].

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* HollywoodAtheist: To some degree. Although she's been an atheist since she was a child, before any of the life events that soured her on idealism, she is definitely the sort of hardened cynic you expect from a HollywoodAtheist. It goes hand in hand with [SillyRabbitLoveIsForKids [[SillyRabbitLoveIsForKids her views on love].love]].
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* HollywoodAtheist: To some degree. Although she's been an atheist since she was a child, before any of the life events that soured her on idealism, she is definitely the sort of hardened cynic you expect from a HollywoodAtheist. It goes hand in hand with [SillyRabbitLoveIsForKids her views on love].

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* AndroidsArePeopleToo: Explored. The reason Alma is pressured into participating in the trial is that her boss is on an ethics committee deciding whether to give the new androids human rights. Interestingly none of the androids express any strong opinion one way or the other.

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* AmicableExes: Enough so for Alma to be invited to her ex's housewarming party.
* AndroidsArePeopleToo: Explored. The reason Alma is pressured into participating in the trial is that her boss is on an ethics committee deciding whether to give the new androids human rights. Interestingly none of the androids express any strong opinion one way or the other.other.
* SillyRabbitRomanceIsForKids: Alma seems to believe this, though it's clear she didn't always.
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* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: Other than a handful of breakthroughs (realistic holograms, "brain scanning", and robots nearly indistinguishable from humans), you would have a hard time telling the world of the movie from our own. Interestingly all of these breakthroughs are tied to a single company so it's possible they're not in widespread use.

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* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: Other than a handful of breakthroughs (realistic holograms, "brain scanning", and robots nearly indistinguishable from humans), you would have a hard time telling the world of the movie from our own. Interestingly all of these breakthroughs are tied to a single company so it's possible they're not in widespread use.use.
* AndroidsArePeopleToo: Explored. The reason Alma is pressured into participating in the trial is that her boss is on an ethics committee deciding whether to give the new androids human rights. Interestingly none of the androids express any strong opinion one way or the other.
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* 20MinutesIntoTheFuture: Other than a handful of breakthroughs (realistic holograms, "brain scanning", and robots nearly indistinguishable from humans), you would have a hard time telling the world of the movie from our own. Interestingly all of these breakthroughs are tied to a single company so it's possible they're not in widespread use.

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* 20MinutesIntoTheFuture: TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: Other than a handful of breakthroughs (realistic holograms, "brain scanning", and robots nearly indistinguishable from humans), you would have a hard time telling the world of the movie from our own. Interestingly all of these breakthroughs are tied to a single company so it's possible they're not in widespread use.
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A researcher at the Pergamon museum in Berlin reluctantly agrees to live for three weeks with a humanoid robot designed to be her perfect man. What follows is an exploration of love, loneliness, and what it means to be alive.

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A researcher at the Pergamon museum in Berlin reluctantly agrees to live for three weeks with a humanoid robot designed to be her perfect man. What follows is an exploration of love, loneliness, and what it means to be alive.alive.

* 20MinutesIntoTheFuture: Other than a handful of breakthroughs (realistic holograms, "brain scanning", and robots nearly indistinguishable from humans), you would have a hard time telling the world of the movie from our own. Interestingly all of these breakthroughs are tied to a single company so it's possible they're not in widespread use.
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[[caption-width-right:185:"Ninety-three percent of women dream of something like this." "Guess which group I belong in."]]

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[[caption-width-right:185:"Ninety-three percent of women dream of something like this." "Guess which group I belong in."]]"]]

A researcher at the Pergamon museum in Berlin reluctantly agrees to live for three weeks with a humanoid robot designed to be her perfect man. What follows is an exploration of love, loneliness, and what it means to be alive.
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