Synopsis
Elsa & Fred (2014) is Michael Radford's gentle romantic comedy-drama you can watch online on iFILM. A widowed grump moves into a new apartment and meets his neighbor — Elsa, a whirlwind of a seventy-four-year-old.
Fred (Christopher Plummer) has more or less resigned himself to seeing out his days in an armchair under his daughter's watch. Elsa (Shirley MacLaine) barges in with a suitcase of tall tales and a stubborn appetite for life. She has nursed one dream for decades: to recreate the Trevi fountain scene from Fellini's La Dolce Vita in Rome. Talked into it, Fred soon finds himself packing a bag. Marcia Gay Harden and James Brolin appear in support.
MacLaine and Plummer carry the whole thing on charm — a light, faintly sentimental story about love arriving late and dreams that don't expire with age. Low on melodrama, high on warmth. Stream Elsa & Fred online on iFILM.
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