Four British teenagers try to pull off a Bitcoin heist from their bedrooms in LifeHack, and this 2026 crime thriller treats their overreach as the engine of the story rather than a punchline.
What is LifeHack about?
Directed by Ronan Corrigan, the film follows a foursome of teenage slackers — played by Georgie Farmer, Yasmin Finney, Roman Hayeck-Green, and James Scholz — as an ambitious, seven-figure Bitcoin scheme pulls them out of their bedrooms and into networks far more dangerous than the ones on their screens. What starts as a shortcut to easy money turns into a test of how far each of them will go once the people on the other end of the transaction start paying attention. Jessica Reynolds, Charlie Creed-Miles, Jill Winternitz, and Cael King round out a cast built around the fallout the teens didn't plan for, as the film tracks the widening gap between what they thought they were risking and what they actually put on the line.
About the cast
LifeHack is led by Georgie Farmer, Yasmin Finney, Roman Hayeck-Green, and James Scholz as the core group of teenagers at the center of the scheme, with Jessica Reynolds, Charlie Creed-Miles, Jill Winternitz, and Cael King filling out the surrounding cast of the UK-US co-production.
Context & significance
The film sits at the intersection of crime thriller and coming-of-age drama, a pairing that's become common as filmmakers explore how easily digital tools let ordinary teenagers stumble into serious criminal territory. Shot as a co-production between the United Kingdom and the United States, LifeHack runs 97 minutes and has met a modest reception, the mark of a title that's drawn a mixed but engaged response rather than universal acclaim.
Watching LifeHack on Ktime
LifeHack streams on K-Time with a free account login, and the film's page is free to browse before you sign in. K-Time carries the movie with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, keeping the crime thriller accessible in Farsi as part of the platform's Farsi-first approach for Iranian viewers abroad.