Elvis Has Left the Building

Elvis Has Left the Building (2004) — watch online on iFILM — is a deadpan comedy directed by Joel Zwick, with Kim Basinger as Harmony, a traveling cosmetics rep who has been shadowed by the King of Rock 'n' Roll since childhood. Wherever she turns up, Elvis impersonators have a habit of dying.

After a freak car crash leaves a string of sequined casualties in her wake, Harmony goes on the run and links up with a burned-out advertising executive played by John Corbett. Denise Richards, Sean Astin, Annie Potts, and Tom Hanks fill out the ensemble; Angie Dickinson and Pat Morita bring old-Hollywood authority to the peripheral chaos.

Zwick, who also directed My Big Fat Greek Wedding, plays it affectionate rather than satirical — the premise is absurd and the film knows it, and that self-awareness keeps it from pushing too hard. Odd, light, and short. Stream Elvis Has Left the Building (2004) online on iFILM.