Director: Jordan Weiss
Two best friends deciding to break up with their high school partners on the same night sounds like a small premise, but this 2024 American comedy stretches it into a whole chaotic evening.
What is Sweethearts about?
The film follows two college freshmen who return home for a visit and quietly agree it's time to end their long-distance high school relationships, only to watch the plan spiral once actual conversations, party detours, and old friendships get involved. What starts as a straightforward pact turns into a night of dodging exes, reuniting with old classmates, and confronting how much both young women have changed since leaving for school. The story leans into cringe-comedy set pieces and overlapping subplots rather than a single clean arc, tracking parallel messes that only partly resolve by morning.
Cast & crew
Kiernan Shipka and Nico Hiraga lead as the two friends navigating a chaotic night, playing the shift from confident planning to messy improvisation with comic timing that carries most of the film. Caleb Hearon and Tramell Tillman add supporting chaos as figures from the leads' pasts, while Christine Taylor appears as a watchful parental presence caught on the edges of the night's fallout.
Context & significance
Director Jordan Weiss builds the film around a single, escalating night, moving between overlapping storylines rather than following one couple in isolation. The tone blends teen comedy with romantic entanglement and a streak of reckless, borderline-illicit misadventure, giving the film a rowdier edge than a standard campus romance. Running 107 minutes, it's paced as a fast, ensemble-driven comedy rather than a slow character study.
Where & how to watch
Sweethearts streams on K-Time with Farsi subtitles, on a platform built for Farsi-speaking viewers outside Iran, though no Persian dub is currently available for this title. Watching requires a free K-Time account login, while this page — cast details, background, and FAQs — is open to read without signing in.