Director: Alexandre Lehmann
Ten years of silence sit between Maggie and her father, and she's driving straight into them, news in hand, in the quiet 2023 drama Acidman.
What is Acidman about?
Maggie hasn't spoken to her father in a decade, but she has something urgent to tell him, so she drives out to the remote, overgrown property where he's been living alone. She finds a man who has drifted further from ordinary life than she expected: convinced that contact from beyond Earth is close at hand, he spends his nights scanning the sky and rigging up equipment meant to catch a signal no one else believes is coming. Every attempt Maggie makes to say what she came to say gets sidetracked by his fixation, forcing her to navigate his eccentricity, his loneliness, and years of unresolved distance all at once. What unfolds is less a confrontation than a slow, careful re-acquaintance between two people who have to relearn how to talk to each other before anything real can be said.
Cast & crew
Dianna Agron plays Maggie opposite Thomas Haden Church as her reclusive father, with Sameerah Luqmaan-Harris and Miranda O'Brien in supporting roles that widen the small, isolated world the story takes place in.
Context & significance
Directed by Alexandre Lehmann, Acidman is a 2023 American drama set largely on one isolated property, using its small scale to focus tightly on the two central performances. It runs 87 minutes and holds a 5.5 rating on IMDb, reflecting a quiet, character-focused film built more around mood and dialogue than plot momentum.
Where & how to watch
Acidman is available on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, so Farsi-speaking viewers can follow its understated conversations in their own language. There's no cost to browse the film's page, and watching it simply requires logging into a K-Time account, part of a platform experience built around Farsi for the diaspora.