Director: Anna Kendrick
Two strangers sit across from each other on a 1970s game show set, cameras rolling, a live studio audience laughing along. Only one of them is telling the truth about who he really is. "Woman of the Hour" turns that mismatch into a slow-building thriller grounded in a real broadcast.
What is Woman Of The Hour about?
Sheryl Bradshaw is an aspiring actress in Los Angeles scraping by on background work and rejection when her agent books her a spot as a contestant on a dating game show. Unbeknownst to the producers, one of the three bachelors she is paired against is a man in the middle of a multi-year killing spree, hiding in plain sight behind an easy smile and rehearsed charm. The film cuts between the tense half-hour of taping and the string of earlier encounters that led him there, building dread not through jump scares but through the gap between what the studio audience sees and what the camera lets viewers know. It is as much about the small, constant negotiations women make with unfamiliar men as it is about the specific case at its center.
Cast & crew
Anna Kendrick plays Sheryl and also directs, her feature debut behind the camera, shifting between the bright, performative energy of a game-show contestant and something warier underneath. Daniel Zovatto plays opposite her as the bachelor concealing a violent history, while Tony Hale appears as the show's genial host, oblivious to what is unfolding a few feet away from him.
Context & significance
"Woman of the Hour" draws on a documented incident from American television history, restaging a real 1978 game-show taping without turning the material into pure true-crime spectacle. Kendrick has spoken about spending years developing the project before stepping in to direct it herself, and the film's period detail, from studio lighting to wardrobe, roots the 94-minute runtime firmly in its era rather than treating it as a modern thriller in period dress.
Where & how to watch
"Woman of the Hour" streams on K-Time with a free account login, on a platform built around a Farsi interface for Persian-speaking viewers. Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles are both available for this title.