Wonder

Wonder (2017) is Stephen Chbosky's family drama you can watch online on iFILM, with Julia Roberts, Owen Wilson and Jacob Tremblay. Ten-year-old Auggie Pullman loves Star Wars, astronaut helmets and his dog, and he has been through more than two dozen surgeries for a rare facial condition.

Until fifth grade his mother taught him at home. Now Auggie walks into a regular school for the first time, into a place where kids can be cruel without even trying. Some look away, some whisper behind his back, and the boy has to decide whether to hide under his helmet or let people see him. The film shifts perspective between Auggie, his older sister Via, who quietly gets pushed aside at home, and the classmates around him. Roberts and Wilson play the parents holding the household together.

It is adapted from R.J. Palacio's novel, a book schoolkids were quoting long before the cameras rolled. Chbosky, who made The Perks of Being a Wallflower, skips the sugar exactly where you brace for it. A plain message about kindness that lands even on grown-ups. Stream Wonder (2017) online on iFILM.