Empathy, Inc.

Empathy, Inc. is a 2018 American science fiction thriller film directed by Yedidya Gorsetman, written by Mark Leidner, and produced by Josh Itzkowitz, starring Zack Robidas, Kathy Searle, and Jay Klaitz.

The film tells the story of Joel, a struggling tech venture capitalist who invests his and his in-laws money in an extreme virtual reality company called Empathy Inc., whose proposed technology will allow wealthy people to spend time in the shoes of the less fortunate.

Club wrote that the film "seethes with low-level menace and anxiety, and features a protagonist navigating a technological marvel that spins off the rails… it tells a solid story with verve and deft pacing.

"[14] Richard Whittaker of The Austin Chronicle called it "an intricate and incisive dissection of greed, vicarious living, guilt, and the precariousness of the American middle class.

[6] Dennis Harvey of Variety called it "a clever indie suspense that draws on fantasy-tinged notions of virtual reality and identity exchange to create an ingenious tale more in the realm of an intimately-scaled thriller than sci-fi.