The Wife

The Wife (2017) is a drama by Björn Runge you can watch online on iFILM. Joan Castleman has spent four decades standing just behind her famous husband — and now he is about to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.

The couple flies to Stockholm for the ceremony, and the trip cracks open a secret kept since the early years of their marriage: the real source of the prose that made him a legend. Glenn Close plays Joan as a woman who poses for the cameras while quietly deciding to walk away. Jonathan Pryce is the husband soaking up every cheer. Christian Slater circles them as a biographer who can smell the story.

Adapted from Meg Wolitzer's novel, the film runs on glances and silences more than speeches. Close took the Golden Globe for Best Actress and a seventh Oscar nomination for the part. Stream The Wife (2017) online on iFILM.