The Sun Is Also a Star

The Sun Is Also a Star (2019) is a YA romance you can watch online on iFILM. Over one sweltering summer day in New York, Natasha Kingsley (Yara Shahidi) and Daniel Bae (Charles Melton) collide on a crowded street. She has only hours left in the city.

Natasha's family faces deportation to Jamaica, and she spends the day racing between lawyers and immigration offices to stop it. Daniel, the son of Korean immigrants, is heading to a Dartmouth interview his parents want far more than he does. A clear-eyed skeptic and a believer in fate strike a bargain: he bets he can make her fall in love using science. The film treats the city itself, from Harlem to the planetarium, as a third lead.

Ry Russo-Young directs from Nicola Yoon's bestselling novel. It is earnest and openly sentimental, aimed squarely at teen viewers, but the looming threat of deportation gives it real stakes that most love-at-first-sight stories never bother with. Stream The Sun Is Also a Star (2019) online on iFILM.