Uncorked

Watch Uncorked (2020) online on iFILM — a Netflix drama-comedy written and directed by Prentiss Penny. Mamoudou Athie plays Elijah, a young man caught between two very different callings: keeping his father's Memphis BBQ restaurant alive and chasing a career as a master sommelier.

Courtney B. Vance brings real weight to the father, a man who built his whole world around one kitchen and simply cannot see why his son wants to walk away from it. Elijah doesn't want to walk away — he wants both. That gap between parental love and parental expectation is where the film lives, and it handles it without making either side the villain.

Released in 2020, the film works best as a quiet portrait of ambition inside a tight-knit family — wine here is less a hobby and more a language Elijah uses to claim his own identity. Stream Uncorked (2020) on iFILM.