Director: Amy Redford
Director Amy Redford turns a young romance sour in this 2023 psychological thriller, where affection curdles into something far more dangerous over eighty-three tense minutes.
What is What Comes Around about?
Anna falls for Josh quickly, the kind of intense, all-consuming connection that feels like it explains everything else missing in her life. But Josh's charm hides a pattern of control that tightens gradually, isolating Anna from friends and family while reshaping how she sees her own judgment. As small warning signs accumulate into something impossible to ignore, the relationship shifts from romance into a slow-building standoff, with Anna forced to reckon with how far Josh is willing to go to keep her close. The film tracks that unraveling from the inside, staying close to Anna's perspective as certainty about who Josh really is keeps slipping further out of reach.
Cast & crew
Grace Van Dien anchors the film as Anna, playing the shift from infatuation to fear with a physicality that carries scenes light on dialogue. Kyle Gallner brings an unsettling charisma to Josh that makes the character's warmth and menace believable in the same breath, while Summer Phoenix and Jesse Garcia fill out the supporting cast that circles the couple.
Context & significance
Redford builds tension through proximity rather than jump scares, favoring close, handheld camerawork that mirrors Anna's shrinking sense of safety. The screenplay draws on recognizable patterns of coercive control in young relationships, giving the thriller mechanics a grounded, unglamorous edge rather than leaning on genre theatrics.
Where & how to watch
What Comes Around is available on K-Time with both Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, and this page can be browsed without any login. Streaming the film itself just needs a free K-Time account, part of a service built around a Farsi-first viewing experience for Persian-speaking households.