She's So Lovely

She's So Lovely (1997) is a drama you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Nick Cassavetes from a script his father John Cassavetes wrote years before his death. It stars Sean Penn and Robin Wright as Eddie and Maureen — a volatile, deeply devoted couple whose love looks to everyone around them like mutual destruction.

When a drunken neighbor attacks Maureen, Eddie's response lands him in a psychiatric institution for a decade. He comes out to find Maureen remarried to a steady, decent man named Joey, played by John Travolta, who has given her and her daughter a life Eddie never could. The film doesn't frame this as a contest between good and bad men — it sits with the messier question of what Maureen actually wants. Penn won Best Actor at Cannes 1997 for this performance, which runs on pure nerve from first scene to last. Watch She's So Lovely (1997) online on iFILM.