Reign Over Me

Reign Over Me (2007) is a drama from writer-director Mike Binder that you can watch online on iFILM. Don Cheadle plays Alan Johnson, a successful Manhattan dentist with a good family, a busy practice and the quiet sense that his life has shrunk to a daily schedule. One afternoon on the street he runs into his old college roommate.

Charlie Fineman, played by Adam Sandler, lost his wife and three daughters in the September 11 attacks. He has lived as a ghost ever since, scooting through the city at night, re-doing his kitchen over and over, losing himself in video games, refusing to let the grief anywhere near him. Alan is the one person from before who Charlie doesn't connect to what he lost. Their rekindled friendship turns out to be exactly what each man needs: one to find a way out of mourning, the other to remember life is bigger than office hours.

Sandler drops nearly all the comedy here, delivering one of his strongest dramatic turns. The film handles trauma without speeches, suggesting that sometimes the help that matters isn't a therapist but an old friend who simply stays close. Stream Reign Over Me (2007) online on iFILM.