Air

Air (2023) is Ben Affleck's drama you can watch online on iFILM. It reconstructs a specific moment in 1984 when Nike's struggling basketball division decided to spend its entire annual athlete budget on a single untested rookie — and changed the sneaker industry permanently.

Matt Damon plays Sonny Vaccaro, the scout who sees something in Michael Jordan that no one else at Nike is willing to bet on. Viola Davis is Deloris Jordan, the mother who reads the fine print and negotiates terms the market had never seen. Ben Affleck directs and plays Nike co-founder Phil Knight; Jason Bateman, Chris Tucker, and Chris Messina fill out the company's inner circle. Jordan himself appears only at the edges — the film is deliberately about the people who backed him before the world knew his name.

Written by Alex Convery, Air runs on sharp dialogue and the specific texture of mid-1980s corporate America, right down to the soundtrack. The closing title cards land harder than most climaxes. Watch Air (2023) online on iFILM.