Director: James Ponsoldt
Writers: James Ponsoldt , Dave Eggers
Stars: Emma Watson, Tom Hanks, John Boyega
The Circle is a 2017 American techno-thriller film directed by James Ponsoldt and written by Ponsoldt and Dave Eggers, based on Eggers' 2013 novel of the same name. The film stars Emma Watson, Tom Hanks, John Boyega, Karen Gillan, Ellar Coltrane, Patton Oswalt, Glenne Headly, and Bill Paxton, in his final film appearance following his death in February 2017.
The film premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 26, 2017 and was released on April 28, 2017, by STX Entertainment and EuropaCorp.
Official trailer
Mae Holland is an ordinary and unaccomplished young woman with an ill father and a mother with a cloying voice. Through an influential college friend, she gets a customer relations job at powerful Internet corporation The Circle, co-founded by Eamon Bailey and Tom Stenton. She quickly rises up the company's ranks, and is selected for a plum assignment with the Circle's newest technology which she eagerly takes on. Soon she finds herself in a perilous situation concerning privacy, surveillance, and freedom. Mae comes to learn that her decisions and actions will determine the future of humanity.