Synopsis
I Like Movies (2023) is a Canadian coming-of-age comedy-drama you can watch online on iFILM. Seventeen-year-old Lawrence Kweller eats, sleeps and breathes cinema — shooting amateur parodies with his best friend, quoting the classics chapter and verse, and fixated on one goal: getting into NYU's film program.
To save up for tuition he takes a job at the local video store, where customers want Shrek far more often than anything on his canon. Lawrence is hard to be around — rude to his mom, dismissive of his friends, convinced of his own genius — and he finds an unlikely anchor in Alana, a manager well into adulthood. Their messy friendship slowly forces the question he keeps dodging: what if he isn't as gifted as he thinks. Isaiah Lehtinen plays the prickly teen without softening him, opposite Romina D'Ugo, in Chandler Levack's feature debut.
Set on the cusp of the early 2000s, it's a warm and quietly painful film about growing up, made for anyone who came of age behind a video-rental counter. Stream I Like Movies (2023) online on iFILM.
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