Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds

Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds (2017) is an HBO documentary you can watch online on iFILM. Directors Alexis Bloom and Fisher Stevens spent months inside two adjoining Beverly Hills homes — Hollywood royalty, mother and daughter, who never quite lived apart.

Carrie Fisher brought Star Wars to billions and spent decades talking publicly about addiction and bipolar disorder before it was acceptable to do so. Debbie Reynolds starred in Singin' in the Rain (1952) and never stopped performing. The film catches them at home, during Debbie's Las Vegas shows, in archival footage — the kind of access stars at that level rarely grant anyone.

It took the Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Special in 2017. Watching it now is heavier than it sounds: both women died in December 2016, within a day of each other, months before the HBO broadcast. Stream Bright Lights (2017) online on iFILM.