Mark your calendars. The excellent indie sci-fi drama feature Advantageous, from writer/director Jennifer Phang, will be available for streaming exclusively on Netflix starting on June 23.
Starring and co-written by Jacqueline Kim, and set in the near future, it's an intelligent, evocative dystopian tale about a mother who must make increasingly desperate sacrifices to ensure a future for her daughter. There are no alien invaders or exploding spaceships. Advantageous is an ambitious, feminist, thinking-person's science fiction story, teeming with challenging ideas and brought to life with a unique vision. I really liked it.
The film, which premiered at Sundance and won the festival's Special Jury Prize for Collaborative Vision, also stars James Urbaniak, Freya Adams, Ken Jeong, Jennifer Ehle and Samantha Kim.
Here's the trailer:
