The Impossible

The Impossible (2012) is a disaster drama you can watch online on iFILM, directed by J. A. Bayona and led by Naomi Watts and Ewan McGregor.

A family of five flies to a Thai beach resort for Christmas. The morning after the holiday, a low roar rolls in from the sea, and within seconds a black wave flattens the whole coast. The water drags the mother and her eldest boy one way, the father and the two younger sons another. What follows is a desperate hunt to reconnect across flooded wreckage and overrun hospitals, where strangers keep risking themselves for people they have never met. A teenage Tom Holland, in one of his first roles, plays the son left to protect his injured mother.

The story tracks what a real family lived through during the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. Bayona shot the flood for real, using a vast water tank and stunt rigs instead of digital seas. Watts earned an Academy Award nomination for the part. The film stays small and human against an enormous catastrophe. Stream The Impossible (2012) online on iFILM.