State of Grace

State of Grace (1990) is an American crime thriller you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Phil Joanou and starring Sean Penn, Ed Harris, Gary Oldman, Robin Wright, John Turturro, and an early John C. Reilly. Runtime: 135 minutes.

Terry Noonan comes back to Hell's Kitchen after ten years away. The neighborhood looks the same. His childhood friend Jackie is neck-deep in the Irish mob run by his brother Frankie — cool-headed where Jackie is combustible. Jackie's sister Kathleen is still there too, and the old pull between her and Terry comes back hard. The longer Terry stays, the more impossible it becomes to be just a bystander. Loyalties that felt simple at fourteen don't hold up under this kind of pressure.

Oldman turns in one of the most raw performances of his career — all live-wire energy and sudden violence. Penn carries the film's moral weight mostly in silence. Released in the same year as Goodfellas, State of Grace never got the attention it deserved. Stream it online on iFILM.