Begin Again

Begin Again (2014) is a musical romance from John Carney that you can watch online on iFILM. Keira Knightley plays Gretta, a songwriter whose world caves in overnight when her musician boyfriend lands a deal, chases fame and walks out on her in New York.

That same night a washed-up producer named Dan happens to hear her sing. Mark Ruffalo plays him as a man scraping bottom, just fired from the very label he co-founded, who suddenly hears the reason he got into music in the first place. With no money for a studio, the two cook up something bolder: record the whole album out in the open, on rooftops, in alleys and subway platforms, letting the city's noise bleed into every take.

Not everyone on screen is a trained actor. Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine and a young Hailee Steinfeld pick up instruments too. Carney, who also made Once, proves again that a single song can put a person back together better than any speech. Stream Begin Again (2014) online on iFILM.