For the Boys

For the Boys (1991) is a musical drama you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Mark Rydell and anchored by Bette Midler's Oscar-nominated performance as Dixie Leonard.

Dixie and comedian Eddie Sparks (James Caan) are thrown together to entertain U.S. troops during World War II — an unlikely pairing that lasts five decades. They reconvene in Vietnam, then again in the nineties, each time carrying more history and more grievance between them. George Segal rounds out the core cast.

Rydell frames the whole thing as a double portrait — two performers who kept showing up for other people while quietly wrecking each other. That tension carries the film's 138 minutes better than the sentimentality does. Stream For the Boys online on iFILM.