Shot across more than twenty years and stitched together from home video and present-day footage, Time follows Fox Rich as she raises a family while campaigning for the release of her husband, Rob, from a sixty-year prison sentence. Garrett Bradley's 2020 documentary runs a compact eighty-one minutes and treats a legal fight as, above all, a long marriage.
What is Time about?
Fox Rich is a mother, a businesswoman and a tireless public speaker whose husband Rob has spent most of their adult lives inside the Louisiana prison system. Rather than reconstruct the case, the film stays close to Fox: the phone calls to clerks who never ring back, the speeches she gives to church halls and community groups, the sons who grow from toddlers into young men while their father remains behind walls. The family's own camcorder tapes, recorded over two decades so that Rob would one day see what he missed, sit alongside Bradley's newly shot black-and-white material, so that past and present speak to each other in a single stream. What emerges is less a procedural about sentencing than a portrait of patience, stubborn hope and the daily labour of keeping a household whole.
About the cast
Nobody here is acting. Fox Rich anchors the picture, and the credits also list Rob Rich II alongside the couple's sons Freedom, Justus, Laurence M., Mahlik and Remington Rich, together with Rob G. Rich. Because so much of the footage was shot by the family themselves, the people on screen are both subjects and co-authors of the record.
Context & significance
Garrett Bradley directs. Time belongs to a wave of American non-fiction from the late 2010s and early 2020s that looks at mass incarceration through one household rather than through statistics, and its decision to present everything in black and white, including the colour home video, gives the archive and the new material a shared texture. The title works on several levels at once: the sentence Rob is serving, the years the tapes cover, and the way time itself becomes the thing the family is fighting to recover. Shot in the United States, it joins K-Time's growing shelf of international non-fiction.
Watching Time on Ktime
Time streams on K-Time in its original English, with the catalogue page and player available in a Farsi interface for Persian-speaking viewers across the diaspora. Reading this page is free; pressing play requires signing in to a K-Time account. At eighty-one minutes it fits comfortably into a single evening.