A wrong number sends a lovesick musician chasing a girl he has never met, and a campus turns into the backdrop for one very public romantic gamble.
What is Finding Emily about?
Finding Emily follows a musician who has fallen for a stranger based on nothing more than a name and a misdialed digit. Rather than let the mistake end there, he pairs up with a psychology student whose methodical approach to human behavior is the opposite of his impulsive one. Their mismatched partnership drives the search forward, pulling in classmates, professors, and eventually most of the campus, who all seem to have an opinion about how the hunt should end. Along the way the film uses the search itself as a device for something more personal: both leads are forced to confront what they actually want, not just from this search but from their own lives. The comedy comes from the gap between plan and execution, while the romance builds quietly underneath the chaos, as the two searchers start to realize the person they need to find might not be the one either of them expected.
About the cast
Angourie Rice and Spike Fearn lead the search, with Minnie Driver rounding out the cast in a film built around the chemistry of its central duo. The pairing of an anxious romantic and a level-headed partner gives the story its comic rhythm, and the ensemble around them keeps the campus setting feeling lived-in rather than staged.
Context & significance
Directed by Alicia MacDonald, Finding Emily is a British-American co-production that leans into the classic campus-comedy structure while keeping its focus tight on two believable leads. The 2026 release sits comfortably in the romantic-comedy tradition of mistaken identity and accidental connection, updated for a generation that treats a wrong number as a mystery worth solving rather than a dead end.
Watching Finding Emily on Ktime
Finding Emily streams on K-Time with a Persian dub and Persian subtitles available, so it plays comfortably for Farsi-speaking households without losing the rhythm of the original dialogue. A free K-Time account is all that is needed to watch; the film's page itself is open to browse without logging in.