The Rewrite

The Rewrite (2014) is a romantic comedy by Marc Lawrence you can watch online on iFILM. Keith Michaels won an Oscar once. That was fifteen years and zero good scripts ago, and Hollywood has stopped returning his calls.

Broke and out of ideas, Keith takes the only job his agent can find: teaching screenwriting at a small college on the East Coast. Hugh Grant plays him as a charming wreck who picks his class from headshots and openly doubts that writing can be taught at all. Then there's the prim department head (Allison Janney), a colleague with a moral streak (J.K. Simmons), and Holly, a single mom and returning student played by Marisa Tomei who refuses to let him coast.

Lawrence sticks to the quiet, talky rhythm of his earlier comedies, trusting dialogue over big twists. No grand gestures, no manufactured tears — just a story about a man learning that a second act comes from people, not pages. Stream The Rewrite (2014) online on iFILM.