Synopsis
Life Itself (2018) is a drama from writer-director Dan Fogelman you can watch online on iFILM. Will and Abby fall for each other in college in New York — a wedding, a first baby on the way, the ordinary shape of a happy home. Then a single event upends everything and sends ripples out across years.
The film is told as a set of chapters that leap the Atlantic, from Manhattan to an olive farm outside Seville. Strangers turn out to be tied together more closely than they could know. Oscar Isaac and Olivia Wilde play that first couple, and the cast widens to include Antonio Banderas, Annette Bening, Samuel L. Jackson and Mandy Patinkin. Fogelman created the series This Is Us, and his taste for interlocking family stories is on full display.
This is unabashedly sentimental cinema that swings for tears and plays hard with how a story is structured. Critics were cool on it, but viewers ready for big emotions found their footing. It's for anyone who likes melodrama with sharp twists and an ending that pulls every thread together. Stream Life Itself (2018) online on iFILM.
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