Parting Glances

Parting Glances (1986) is a low-budget New York indie drama you can watch online on iFILM, shot for around $140,000 by first-time director Bill Sherwood.

The film plays out over a single day in Brooklyn. Michael and Robert have been together for years, but Robert flies out to Nairobi the next morning — sent by his boss for reasons that feel personal. Michael keeps drifting back toward Nick, his ex and oldest friend, a punk musician now living with AIDS. Steve Buscemi plays Nick, and he takes every scene he's in.

Sherwood made the film at the peak of the crisis, when almost no American studio would touch the subject. He died of the disease in 1990 — this is the only film he ever made. Stream Parting Glances (1986) online on iFILM.