A malfunction wakes one traveler ninety years too early on a generations-long voyage to a distant colony, and the choice he makes next reshapes every relationship the film explores.
What is Passengers about?
Thousands of colonists are held in suspended sleep aboard a starship bound for a new world, their journey timed to last decades longer than any human lifespan spent conscious. When a fault in one sleep chamber jolts a lone passenger awake far ahead of schedule, he finds himself alone on a ship built for a crowd, with no way back into hibernation and no way to reach the destination before the voyage's natural end. The isolation forces an impossible decision that draws a second passenger into his situation, and from there the story turns into a study of what two people owe each other when one of their choices can never be undone. As more of the ship's systems begin failing, the drama widens from a private moral dilemma into a race to keep the vessel itself intact.
About the cast
Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt carry nearly the entire film as the two awakened passengers, playing out a relationship that has to hold the audience's attention with almost no other characters on screen. Michael Sheen provides a quieter, recurring presence as an android bartender who becomes the closest thing either of them has to a confidant, while Laurence Fishburne joins later as a crew member whose appearance changes the stakes on board.
Context & significance
The film leans on its production design as much as its plot, building a self-contained ship environment of pools, restaurants and observation decks that has to double as both luxury resort and prison for its two leads. Its central premise, one person's decision permanently altering another's fate with no possibility of consent, gives the science-fiction setting a more intimate, relationship-driven focus than the genre's usual survival or exploration stories.
Watching Passengers on Ktime
Passengers can be streamed on K-Time with a free account login, and both Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles are available for this title. K-Time's Farsi-language interface is built around exactly this kind of catalogue browsing, making it simple for Persian-speaking viewers to find English-language releases like this one.