Arthur Newman

Arthur Newman (2012) is an American drama with Colin Firth and Emily Blunt that you can watch online on iFILM. Worn out by his own life, Wallace fakes his death, takes a new name — Arthur Newman — and drives off to start over from a blank page.

On the road he meets a young woman who is also running from her past. They move in together and invent borrowed biographies, trying on the lives of strangers they cross. The further the game goes, the clearer it gets: a made-up name is no place to hide from yourself. Firth plays the runaway quiet and melancholy, Blunt his companion with secrets of her own, with Lucas Hedges and Anne Heche in smaller parts.

Dante Ariola's directing debut is a hushed 104-minute road movie about two broken lives and the illusion of a second chance. Not a loud festival hit but an intimate piece for anyone who likes slow dramas about identity and the urge to disappear. Stream Arthur Newman (2012) online on iFILM.