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The Newsroom star plays a New Yorker concerned his online girlfriend is not what she appears to be in this trailer, exclusive to BuzzFeed.

Kate Lyn Sheil in The Heart Machine

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John Gallagher Jr. is having a moment. The Broadway actor turned Newsroom star can soon be seen in the third and final season of the Aaron Sorkin drama, premiering Nov. 9, and he's pulling double duty on HBO by acting alongside Richard Jenkins and Frances McDormand in the mini-series Olive Kitteridge, which will air the week before.

Elsewhere, he and Brie Larson were terrific together in last year's tender group home feature film Short Term 12. And in the new indie The Heart Machine, written and directed by Zachary Wigon and opening in theaters and on VOD Oct. 24, he appears with fellow up-and-comer Kate Lyn Sheil (House of Cards) in a drama about a couple whose online love affair is complicated by secrets.

Gallagher plays Cody, a New Yorker involved in a long-distance relationship with Virginia (Sheil), though the two have never met in person. Virginia claims to live in Berlin, though Cody starts to suspect she may actually be much closer, and begins an investigation into the nature of his digital romance in a mystery about love in our well-connected era.