The Deal

The Deal (2008) is a Hollywood comedy you can watch online on iFILM, starring William H. Macy and Meg Ryan. Charlie Berns (Macy) is a washed-up producer who has all but given up on the industry — until his idealistic nephew walks in with a script that, against all logic, gets greenlit by a studio.

Then everything unravels at once. The lead actor gets kidnapped. The studio assigns sharp-witted executive Diedre Hearn (Ryan) to keep Charlie from blowing up what's left. And the whole production starts falling apart from multiple directions simultaneously. Macy and Ryan make an oddly appealing team — two survivors of different kinds of failure, stuck trying to finish an impossible film. A backstage comedy that lands its punches cleanly. Stream The Deal online on iFILM.