Heavy

Heavy (1995) is the feature debut of director James Mangold, a quiet, unhurried drama you can watch online on iFILM. Pruitt Taylor Vince plays Victor, a cook at a roadside diner run by his overbearing mother Dolly (Shelley Winters). His world is small by design — same routine, same silence, same careful avoidance of anything that might hurt.

Then Callie arrives as a new waitress. Liv Tyler plays her with an ease that makes Victor's stillness feel all the sharper: someone comfortable in the world, standing right next to someone who has never been. He falls for her. He knows nothing will come of it. He does nothing about it. That gap between feeling and action is what the film sits inside for its full 105 minutes.

Debbie Harry brings a wry, worn warmth to the supporting cast. Mangold treats Victor's paralysis without mockery or rescue — which is what makes the film worth finding. Stream Heavy (1995) online on iFILM.