The Companion
Well actually they are anything but simple - still no pun intended! And no trying to blame technology for whatever. I reckon this being afraid of AI is nothing new - and this is working nowadays too. Even more so, when you consider the acting talent at hand here.

I probably would have loved this more if I had watched it back in the day (me as a teenager that is, also target audience in the 90s). Acting is good, but it is the story that is super predictable and you will not have problems seeing where this is going. Which almost makes the characters in this seem .... well not too intelligent ... but you have to have people not being too intelligent for stuff to happen ...,