Synopsis
Hateship Loveship (2014) is a quiet American drama you can watch online on iFILM. Directed by Liza Johnson, it casts Kristen Wiig against type as Johanna, a withdrawn caretaker who takes a live-in job and barely says a word.
The teenage daughter of the house decides to play a cruel prank. Posing as her recovering, addiction-scarred father, she sends Johanna a string of tender emails. Johanna takes every line at face value and quietly rebuilds her whole life around a man who never wrote them. Guy Pearce plays the father, Hailee Steinfeld the daughter behind the scheme, with Nick Nolte and Jennifer Jason Leigh rounding out the small cast.
The script comes from a short story by Canadian Nobel laureate Alice Munro, and it shows: the film lives in small gestures rather than big turns. It's a slow, watchful piece about loneliness and the dignity of hoping anyway. One for viewers who like their dramas patient and unshowy. Stream Hateship Loveship (2014) online on iFILM.
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