Out of the Furnace

Out of the Furnace (2013) is a crime drama you can watch online on iFILM. Director Scott Cooper (Black Mass) set his film in the hollowed-out steel towns of Pennsylvania's Rust Belt, where the mills are dark and the options are few.

Russell Baze (Christian Bale) works the furnace and tries to keep his family from going under. His brother Rodney (Casey Affleck) came back from Iraq with debts and damage, and got pulled into an illegal bare-knuckle fighting circuit. When Rodney vanishes and the local sheriff (Forest Whitaker) moves too slowly, Russell starts his own investigation — which leads straight to Harlan DeGroat (Woody Harrelson), a violent Appalachian crime boss with nothing to lose.

The ensemble includes Zoe Saldana, Willem Dafoe, and Sam Shepard. Cooper shoots the region without sentiment — rusted bridges, empty shift lots, men with nowhere to be angry but at each other. Stream Out of the Furnace (2013) online on iFILM.