8 Best Dates

8 Best Dates (2016) is a Russian-Ukrainian romantic comedy you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Marius Vaysberg. Nikita, a vet clinic owner played by Volodymyr Zelensky, receives a terminal diagnosis and quietly sets about auditioning a replacement husband for his wife and children — before he goes.

Ilya, a dependable firefighter, moves into the house under a cover story. Vera Brezhneva plays the wife who has no idea what her husband is running. When Nikita learns the diagnosis was a medical error, Ilya has already won over the kids, the patients at the clinic, and practically everyone else in the building.

The comedy of a man who constructed his own love triangle and now has to live inside it gives the film its best moments — Zelensky plays the self-inflicted jealousy with a straight face that makes it funnier than it has any right to be. Watch 8 Best Dates (2016) online on iFILM.