Author! Author!

Author! Author! (1982) is a comedy-drama you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Arthur Hiller with Al Pacino playing Ivan Travalian, a Broadway playwright whose life falls apart days before his new play opens. His wife Gloria walks out. She leaves behind five children — four of them hers from three previous marriages, one of them his.

Ivan is suddenly a single father, a deadline away from opening night, and slowly falling for Alice Detroit, played by Dyan Cannon — the lead actress in his own production. The film works because Pacino is genuinely relaxed here, something you don't expect from him. No menace, no intensity dialed to eleven. Just a man trying to hold together a patchwork family while his professional life teeters.

The scenes between Pacino and the kids carry more weight than the romance. Tuesday Weld co-stars as the departing wife, and Alan King rounds out the cast. A warm, low-stakes New York comedy that tends to get overlooked in Pacino's filmography. Watch Author! Author! (1982) online on iFILM.