

He joins them but costs the team the game he invites everyone out for drinks, but they turn him down. When Craig and Elaine invite Phil to kickball again, he claims to be busy but Jexi embarrassingly corrects him.

Kai demotes Phil to the “ comments section” with the older employees in the basement. Posing as him, she emails an insulting letter to Kai demanding a promotion. Designed to “make his life better”, Jexi aggressively tries to break Phil out of his bad habits. Setting up his new phone, Phil gives “Jexi”, the device's virtual assistant, access to all his accounts after neglecting to read the user agreement. Taking his mobile to be replaced, Phil is berated by phone store employee Denice for being overly reliant on his phone to navigate life. She attempts to flirt, but Phil is more concerned with his phone until another cyclist rides into him, breaking it. Immersed in his phone, he walks into Cate, a local bike shop owner. Phil's coworkers Craig and Elaine invite him to play kickball, but the socially inept Phil declines.

Despite Phil's degree in journalism, Kai refuses to promote him to the real news department. He works for a BuzzFeed-style website (Chatterbox) run by Kai, who pressures the staff to create inane listicles to go viral. Phil becomes enamored with cell phones at an early age. It was the final theatrical film released by CBS Films, which was absorbed into the main CBS Entertainment Group and switched to making films for CBS All Access (now called Paramount+) immediately thereafter. Jexi was released on Octoin the United States by CBS Films and Lionsgate. The plot follows a self-aware smartphone that becomes emotionally attached to its socially awkward owner. The film stars Adam DeVine, Alexandra Shipp, Michael Peña, Rose Byrne, Justin Hartley, Wanda Sykes, Ron Funches, and Charlyne Yi. Jexi is a 2019 comedy film written and directed by Jon Lucas and Scott Moore.
