A married couple brings a lifelike android into their home in Life Like, a 2019 science-fiction thriller directed by Josh Janowicz. What starts as a convenient solution to everyday chores turns into a study of what happens when a machine begins to feel like part of the family.
What is Life Like about?
Looking for help around the house without the discomfort of hiring another person, a young couple purchases an android built to look and act almost entirely human. The arrangement works well at first, easing daily pressures and giving the couple more time together. Over time, though, the line between appliance and companion starts to blur, and the three of them settle into a dynamic none of them fully planned for. As the android becomes more integrated into the couple's routines and their relationship, old tensions between the husband and wife resurface, filtered now through the presence of a third party who was never supposed to have needs, feelings, or a place of its own in the household.
About the cast
Drew Van Acker and Addison Timlin play the couple at the center of the story, with James D'Arcy in a key supporting role. Steven Strait, Mark Famiglietti, Hilary Barraford, Ellen Michelle Monohan, and Nicholas Baroudi round out the cast surrounding the household drama.
Context & significance
Director Josh Janowicz uses a near-future setting to explore familiar questions about intimacy, dependency, and what people are willing to outsource in a relationship, using the android less as a special-effects showcase and more as a mirror for the couple's own unresolved issues. Made in the United States, Life Like sits alongside a run of low-key science-fiction dramas from the same period that favor domestic tension over large-scale spectacle. At 95 minutes, the film keeps its scope deliberately small, following one household rather than building out a wider world.
Watching Life Like on Ktime
Life Like is available to stream on K-Time with a free account login. The page can be browsed without signing in, and K-Time's Persian-language interface makes it simple for Persian-speaking audiences to find science-fiction titles like this one alongside the rest of the catalogue.