The Shift

The Shift (2023) is a faith-tinged science fiction drama available to watch online on iFILM. After a car crash, Kevin meets a stranger who can move people between parallel versions of Earth.

When Kevin refuses to work for this so-called Benefactor, he's banished to a bleak, tyrannical Earth that has stripped him of everything. His one aim is getting back to his wife Molly, who is grieving their vanished son. Kristoffer Polaha plays a man broken over and over; Neal McDonough is the antagonist, all menace and a crooked grin.

Writer-director Brock Heasley loosely reworks the biblical Book of Job: what does a man choose once his reason to hold on has been taken away. The sci-fi here leans parable over spectacle, and it'll land for viewers who like the idea that choice outweighs circumstance. Stream The Shift (2023) online on iFILM.