People Like Us

People Like Us (2012) is an American family drama you can watch online on iFILM. Sam, a salesman buried in debt, flies home to Los Angeles for the funeral of the father he had cut out of his life.

His dad, a famous record producer, left behind a strange request: deliver $150,000 in cash to a stranger named Josh Davis. As Sam follows the trail, he learns he has a sister, Frankie, he never knew existed, and Josh is her troubled twelve-year-old boy. Sam badly needs that money himself, so he edges his way into their lives without telling them the truth. Chris Pine and Elizabeth Banks play the siblings, while Michelle Pfeiffer is the mother who kept the family secret.

This is the directing debut of Alex Kurtzman, the screenwriter behind Star Trek, and the story grew largely out of his own life. A quiet film about how people who are strangers by blood turn out to be family. Stream People Like Us (2012) online on iFILM.