The Only Living Boy in New York

The Only Living Boy in New York (2017) — watch online the drama directed by Marc Webb, with Callum Turner, Jeff Bridges, Kate Beckinsale and Pierce Brosnan. Webb shoots the city in warm, grainy light, reaching for a New York that belongs more to Salinger than to Instagram.

Thomas is a recent graduate adrift in his father's long shadow. His father (Brosnan) is a respected publisher; his mother (Cynthia Nixon) is quietly miserable. When Thomas discovers the affair his father is carrying on with Johanna (Beckinsale), he sets out to end it — and ends up drawn to her himself. The only person he talks to honestly is W.F. (Bridges), a whiskey-drinking neighbour who dishes out cryptic wisdom with the ease of someone who has seen this particular story before. A late revelation reframes every scene that came before it.

Stream The Only Living Boy in New York (2017) online on iFILM — a compact, literate drama about the moment you stop being your parents' idea of you and start figuring out your own.