The Center of the World

The Center of the World (2001) is Wayne Wang's intimate drama you can watch online on iFILM. A withdrawn dot-com millionaire offers a club dancer ten thousand dollars for three nights together in Las Vegas — and she says yes, but only on her terms.

Peter Sarsgaard plays the coder who has money and no idea how to connect; Molly Parker is the woman who keeps the rules clear until the deal starts to bend under real feeling. Shot on raw digital video, it trades gloss for a cramped hotel suite, neon outside the window, and two people confusing a transaction for affection. Frank and uncomfortable, it pokes at desire, money, and where the line really sits. One for fans of cold, unsentimental indie cinema with no tidy ending. Stream The Center of the World (2001) online on iFILM.