Joaquin Phoenix falls for Scarlett Johansson's voice in 'Her' trailer

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Bad movies can look great in a 150-second trailer. And great movies can’t always be fully appreciated in a brief collage of moments. You simply never know about a movie until you actually see it, so I never let a coming attraction push me too far either way. But… the trailer for Spike Jonze’s Her looks amazing, emblematic of his most original, provocative work, like Adaptation. Joaquin Phoenix plays Theodore Twombly, a depressed writer whose life changes when he starts using the world’s first artificially intelligent operating system to organize his life. It is a she, named Samantha, and she sounds an awful lot like Scarlett Johansson. As Theodore begins to emerge from his cocoon of gloom — reuniting with his Master co-star Amy Adams — he and Samantha grow closer than you and Siri ever did.

Watch the promising first look at Her below.

Her is due in theaters on Nov. 20.

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