Director: Simon Cellan Jones
Selling minivans by day and burying a violent past by night is the balancing act at the center of The Family Plan, a 2023 action-comedy that turns a family road trip into a survival story.
What is The Family Plan about?
Dan Morgan looks like an ordinary suburban father: a reliable car salesman, a devoted husband, someone who packs school lunches without complaint. What his wife and kids don't know is that he spent years working as a government operative before walking away to build this quieter life. When people from that earlier career track him down, Dan has no choice but to load his unsuspecting family into the car and get them out of town, turning a routine drive into a chase full of near-misses and reluctant confessions. Along the way, the film balances comedic family friction with genuine action set pieces, using the road trip format to reveal Dan's past in pieces rather than all at once.
Cast & crew
Mark Wahlberg plays Dan, carrying both the comedic and physical demands of the role, while Michelle Monaghan plays his wife, whose patience is tested as the family's situation spirals. Maggie Q appears as one of the threats from Dan's past, and Zoe Colletti and Van Crosby play the Morgan children caught in the middle. Saïd Taghmaoui, Ciarán Hinds, and Marcus Anderson fill out supporting roles that keep the pressure on the family throughout the trip.
Context & significance
Directed by Simon Cellan Jones, The Family Plan runs just under two hours and leans into the family-road-trip structure common to studio action-comedies, using stops along the way to escalate both the danger and the humor. The film keeps its scale contained to the family unit, which lets the action scenes stay personal rather than sprawling. It holds a 6.3 rating on IMDb, in line with a film aimed squarely at broad, easy-watching entertainment rather than awards attention.
Where & how to watch
The Family Plan streams on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, giving viewers the option to watch in Farsi from start to finish. A free K-Time account is all that's required to start the film, and this page is open to read without signing in first.