Kazaam

Kazaam (1996) is a family fantasy-comedy you can watch online on iFILM. Director Paul Michael Glaser cast NBA star Shaquille O'Neal as Kazaam, a genie who has been locked inside a boom box for thousands of years. When twelve-year-old Max, a kid with a broken home and a bad run-in with local bullies, stumbles into the right basement, the spell breaks — and neither of them is happy about it.

Kazaam has to grant three wishes; Max barely believes any of this is real. Francis Capra plays the boy with a genuine edge — this is a kid who is angry first and hopeful second. Underneath the slapstick, the film is really about what a boy wants from a father figure when the real one has disappeared. It sits in an odd, likeable space between kids' adventure and earnest family drama. Watch Kazaam (1996) online on iFILM.