Disconnect is a 2012 American psychological thriller film directed by Henry Alex Rubin and written by Andrew Stern.

It stars an ensemble cast featuring Jason Bateman, Hope Davis, Frank Grillo, Michael Nyqvist, Paula Patton, Andrea Riseborough, Alexander Skarsgård, Max Thieriot, Colin Ford and Jonah Bobo.

[2] The film explores how people experience the negative sides of modern communication technology by following three interconnecting stories.

Ambitious, up-and-coming reporter Nina Dunham interviews an underage video chat-room stripper named Kyle.

Two boys, Jason and his friend Frye, impersonate a girl named "Jessica Rhony" on Facebook Messenger and convince teenager Ben (the son of Rich, a lawyer for the TV station where Nina works) to send a nude picture of himself.

A young married couple, Derek and Cindy, are still devastated due to a tragedy that occurred two years earlier: the death of their only son of SIDS.

The film's widest release domestically was 180 theaters and it ended up earning $1,436,900 in the United States and $70,448 internationally for a total of $1,507,310.

The critical consensus states: "It's didactic in spots and melodramatic in others, but Disconnect's strong cast helps make it a timely, effective exploration of modern society's technological overload".

[4] Richard Roeper of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film four out of four stars, and wrote: "Even when the dramatic stakes are raised to the point of pounding music accompanying super-slow motion, potentially tragic violence, Disconnect struck a chord with me in a way few films have in recent years.