Noises Off...

Noises Off... (1992) is Peter Bogdanovich's farcical comedy you can watch online on iFILM, starring Michael Caine, Carol Burnett, Christopher Reeve, John Ritter, and Nicolette Sheridan.

Director Lloyd Fellowes (Michael Caine) is steering a touring theater company through a bawdy British farce. The problem is not the play. It's the cast. The leading lady is well past her best years, the male lead flinches at his own shadow, and one character actor is reliably drunk. What the audience sees from their seats is chaos. What happens in the wings is something else entirely — romantic entanglements, bruised egos, and a revolving door of wrong people in wrong rooms.

Adapted from Michael Frayn's long-running stage hit, the film's structure mirrors its subject: Bogdanovich shows the same scenes first from the front of the stage, then from backstage. That dual perspective is the real joke. Stream Noises Off... (1992) online on iFILM.