Manglehorn

Manglehorn (2015) is a quiet American drama you can watch online on iFILM, directed by David Gordon Green and carried almost entirely by Al Pacino. A.J. Manglehorn fixes locks for a living in a small Texas town: same diner, same bank teller every Friday, a sick cat he tends to with more devotion than he's shown any person in decades. And somewhere in the pile of mail on his table — letters he keeps writing to a woman he walked out on forty years ago.

The premise is simple but the weight is real. Young Manglehorn once chose a big criminal job over the woman he loved, and he never stopped paying for it. Dawn, the warm bank teller played by Holly Hunter, is right there offering something new — but Manglehorn has made a career of not letting go.

This is Pacino stripped of his trademark intensity, working in something close to a whisper. It's an unusual performance from him, and the best reason to seek the film out. Stream Manglehorn (2015) online on iFILM.