Bubble

Bubble (2006) is a Steven Soderbergh crime drama you can watch online on iFILM. A decaying Midwestern town, a doll factory operating on borrowed time, two coworkers — Martha and Kyle — whose routine barely varies from one week to the next. Then a new employee, Rose, arrives. Then someone turns up dead.

Soderbergh cast the entire film with non-professional actors — actual residents of the Ohio River valley towns where it was shot. The result isn't a performance of working-class life; it is working-class life, complete with silences that stretch longer than most directors would allow. At 73 minutes, it never overstays.

The film was released simultaneously in theatres, on DVD, and on cable — a deliberate challenge to Hollywood's distribution windows that made as many headlines as the movie itself. What stays with you is the motive: mundane, almost embarrassingly small, and exactly right. Stream Bubble (2006) online on iFILM.