Director: Nick Moore
Born in the same London hospital a single minute apart, Minnie and Quinn spend three decades drifting in and out of each other's orbit before a New Year's Eve reunion pushes their paths back together in this 2024 British romantic comedy.
What is This Time Next Year about?
Minnie and Quinn have shared a birthday since the moment they were born, sixty seconds apart, in the same London maternity ward. Three decades on, their lives have taken almost opposite shapes, and neither has kept up with the other beyond a shared date on the calendar. A chance New Year's Eve in London puts them back in the same room, and what starts as an awkward coincidence turns into a test of how much of who they used to be still matters now that they're strangers with a birthday in common.
Cast & crew
Sophie Cookson and Lucien Laviscount lead as Minnie and Quinn, with John Hannah, Golda Rosheuvel, Monica Dolan, Mandip Gill, Charlie Oscar and Will Hislop filling out the supporting cast. Director Nick Moore, whose background is in editing, keeps the film's structure tight, jumping between the pair's separate lives before letting them collide.
Context & significance
This Time Next Year is built around a familiar romantic-comedy device, a recurring calendar date that forces two people back together year after year, but sets it against a modern London backdrop and a genuinely mixed supporting cast that reflects the city itself. At 116 minutes, it has room to spend real time with Minnie and Quinn's separate lives rather than rushing straight to their reunion, which is part of what distinguishes it from shorter genre entries.
Where & how to watch
This Time Next Year is available on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, making the film's British humor easy to follow for Farsi speakers. Browsing the page costs nothing; watching just requires a K-Time account login, with an interface built around the Persian-speaking diaspora experience.