Being Human

Being Human (1994) is a fantasy drama you can watch online on iFILM, written and directed by Bill Forsyth (Local Hero, Gregory's Girl). Robin Williams plays the same man across five separate lifetimes — prehistoric Scotland, Ancient Rome, medieval Portugal, feudal Japan, and modern New York — each time named Hector, each time facing a version of the same problem.

The problem is never supernatural. It's always human: how to protect the people who depend on you, how to act with courage when the moment arrives, why neither seems to get easier with practice. John Turturro, Bill Nighy, Robert Carlyle, and an early-career Ewan McGregor appear across the anthology's different eras. Forsyth keeps the whole thing at a quiet, wry remove — this is not the Robin Williams you'd expect, and that restraint is what makes it worth watching.

Watch Being Human (1994) online on iFILM.