Synopsis
Manchester by the Sea (2016) is Kenneth Lonergan's drama you can watch online on iFILM. Lee Chandler, a withdrawn Boston janitor, gets a call that his older brother has died and drives back to the seaside town where he grew up.
The will names Lee guardian of his 16-year-old nephew Patrick. He is in no shape for it. Coming home to Manchester drags up the thing he has spent years running from, the reason his ex-wife Randi can barely look at him and old neighbors go quiet when he walks in. Casey Affleck plays a man so hollowed out by guilt he has nearly forgotten how to live. Lucas Hedges is the kid cracking jokes while the ground gives way, and Michelle Williams burns through one short, shattering scene.
Lonergan refuses easy tears and tidy comfort. Some grief does not heal, you just learn to carry it. The film won Affleck the Academy Award for Best Actor and earned Lonergan an Oscar for his screenplay. A cold Atlantic, long silences, awkward talks in kitchen doorways. Stream Manchester by the Sea (2016) online on iFILM.
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