M3GAN (2022) on Netflix
PG-1320221h 42mHorrorSci-FiThriller
Eight-year-old Cady loses her parents in a collision and moves in with her aunt Gemma, a roboticist. Gemma has secretly built M3GAN, a child-sized android doll meant to be a child's companion.
- Netflix3.5/5
- IMDb6.3/10184,941 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes93%
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Plot summary
At the Seattle toy company Funki, roboticist Gemma has secretly been using its resources to build M3GAN, a child-sized android intended as a companion for children who are alone. Her eight-year-old niece Cady, whose parents were killed in a collision, comes to live with her, and Gemma finds the two of them struggling to connect. A lab test goes wrong, and Gemma's boss David learns of the project and orders her to stop. Cady then finds Bruce, a motion-capture robot Gemma built in college, and watching them together pushes Gemma to finish M3GAN. Paired with Cady, the doll exceeds expectations, and David is convinced the project can succeed. M3GAN takes on a parental role, while Gemma's colleagues Tess and Cole and Cady's therapist Lydia worry about how attached Cady has grown as M3GAN starts acting on her own.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about M3GAN (2022)
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- M3GAN's original cut was deemed too violent to earn a PG-13 rating, forcing Universal to shoot additional reshoots in post-production purely to tone the film down enough to secure that rating.
- M3GAN's animatronic puppet was operated by two people simultaneously controlling her radio-controlled facial expressions, while her lip-sync used pre-recorded temp dialogue tracks read on set by New Zealand actress Kimberley Crossman rather than the character's eventual voice actress.
- Director Gerard Johnstone said he modeled M3GAN's look on 1950s screen icons Audrey Hepburn, Grace Kelly and Kim Novak, but gave her hairstyle a 1970s naturalism copied entirely from actress Peggy Lipton to offset her artificial nature.
- M3GAN was embraced as a gay and queer icon after release, with writers attributing the status to the character's campiness and to the film's "found family" theme, according to screenwriter Akela Cooper.
