People Like Us

Skip the prestige-TV noise — People Like Us, in Australia on Disney Plus, is quietly one of the better ones. It says what it needs to say in one sitting, no filler. 660 viewers have already rated it on TMDB — the kind of consensus that does not happen by accident. Chris Pine's performance alone is worth the time investment. Available now on Disney Plus — press play and find out why people keep recommending it.

People Like Us arrived without much fanfare and built its audience the hard way — through word of mouth. People Like Us trusts its audience to sit with discomfort instead of resolving it too quickly. After flying home to L.A. For the funeral of his estranged record-producer father, a struggling man discovers that the will stipulates that he must deliver $150,000 in cash to a 30-year-old alcoholic sister he never knew existed, and her troubled 12-year-old son. Chris Pine and Elizabeth Banks lead a cast doing genuinely serious work here. People Like Us came out in 2012. The performances in People Like Us do a lot of work in the silences between the dialogue. It knows exactly what it is, and does not try to be anything else.

For anyone looking for storytelling that takes its characters seriously, People Like Us delivers. If you have run out of similar titles to watch, this is a strong next pick. A contained runtime means every scene is doing real work. Chris Pine's work here is the kind that gets referenced in career retrospectives. It makes everything else feel thin by comparison.

People Like Us was released in 2012, directed by Alex Kurtzman. The full 114-minute film is available to watch now. Find exactly where it's streaming below, and TV Butler Pro makes it effortless to track your progress as you go. Just search the name, and Butler finds it instantly, tells you which service has it, and remembers exactly where you left off.