Thirteen Conversations About One Thing

Thirteen Conversations About One Thing (2001) is an American drama you can watch online on iFILM. In New York, a lawyer, an insurance actuary, a house-cleaner and a physics professor barely know one another, yet their paths keep crossing around a single nagging question: what is happiness, and can anyone hold on to it?

Director Jill Sprecher braids four storylines so they overlap rather than run in sequence — a line spoken in one thread lands in another, a chance encounter rewrites someone's luck. Alan Arkin plays a man who resents other people's cheer; Matthew McConaughey is a prosecutor whose life cracks after a single hit-and-run, with John Turturro and Amy Irving alongside. Quiet, talky cinema for viewers who like a story built from small moments instead of big events — closer to a Raymond Carver story than to a sweeping melodrama. Stream Thirteen Conversations About One Thing (2001) online on iFILM.