A senior year organized around a bucket list doesn't usually run through a soundboard, but that's the hook driving this 2021 American comedy-drama about a teenager who measures his remaining time in noises rather than days.
What is The Ultimate Playlist of Noise about?
Marcus is a high-school senior who has built his whole identity around sound, chasing recordings the way other kids chase grades or girlfriends. When a routine checkup turns into news that he needs brain surgery, and that the surgery will leave him deaf, he refuses to spend the weeks before the operation waiting. Instead he sets out to capture every noise that has ever meant something to him, from the ordinary clatter of his house to the voices of the people he loves, compiling a running list that becomes as much a farewell letter to hearing as it is a teenage adventure. The film follows that scramble as friendships get tested, plans go sideways, and Marcus tries to fit an entire relationship with sound into one final stretch of ordinary days.
About the cast
Keean Johnson anchors the ensemble, with Madeline Brewer, Oliver Cooper, Ariela Barer, Ian Gomez, Emily Skeggs, Carol Mansell and Carrie Louise Putrello filling out the circle of friends and family around him.
Context & significance
Bennett Lasseter directs this 2021 United States production, which sits across comedy, drama and music in close to equal measure rather than leaning hard into any one of them. That mix shapes the tone throughout: the premise is a serious one, but the film treats Marcus's project as a source of humor and warmth as often as sadness, letting music supervision and sound design carry scenes the dialogue leaves open.
Watching The Ultimate Playlist of Noise on Ktime
The film streams on K-Time with a free account login, and the page itself is free to read before you sign in. Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles are both available, so viewers can follow Marcus's story in a fully localized Farsi experience built for K-Time's diaspora audience.