Dopamine

Wise beyond their years in matters of the heart, first-time director Mark Decena and his writing partner Timothy Breitbach have created an uncommonly smart and bittersweet romantic comedy that asks an interesting question. In an era when it seems our every mood is alterable through chemical modification, how can we be sure that what we regard as "love" isn't simply the result of some physiological reaction? Rand (John Livingston) is a young San Francisco computer animator who firmly believes that love is all a matter of stuff like pheromones, norepinephrine and dopamine — all those bodily chemicals that can make our pulses pound and our hearts skip a beat. Rand gets ...