Break

Break (2024) is an American drama you can watch online on iFILM. Eli grew up without his father, then learns the truth: the man was a legend of the Detroit pool halls. So the kid walks into that world himself — cue in hand, carrying questions almost no one left alive can answer.

Here billiards isn't a sport so much as a habitat: smoky rooms, side bets, other people's debts, and players for whom a game for money is how they get by. The deeper Eli sinks into the scene, the more it tests not just his stroke but who he is — who to trust, what he'll put on the line, what kind of man he becomes in his father's shadow. Director Will Wernick keeps the focus on character rather than trick shots, with Jeff Kober and Patricia Belcher in supporting roles.

A small-scale coming-of-age story told through the hustle — for anyone who likes father-and-son dramas about the price of living up to someone else's legend. The title nods to the break shot that scatters the rack. Stream Break (2024) online on iFILM.