Please Give

Please Give (2010) is Nicole Holofcener's New York dramedy, and you can watch it online on iFILM. Kate and her husband Alex run a vintage furniture shop, buying pieces from the families of the recently dead and reselling them at a steep markup.

Kate is eaten up by guilt. She hands cash to people on the street, hunts for a charity that will take her, and waits — a little shamefully — for the cranky 91-year-old next door to die so they can knock through into the apartment they've already bought. Old Andra has two granddaughters: kind, weary Rebecca and sharp-tongued Mary. Catherine Keener, Oliver Platt, Rebecca Hall and Amanda Peet keep it all small and true.

Holofcener builds comedy out of middle-class discomfort — no villains, no lesson, just people failing to be as good as they'd like. It's funny and faintly mortifying, because you keep recognizing yourself. Stream Please Give online on iFILM.