Pixar's Inside Out sets its family adventure entirely inside the head of an eleven-year-old, turning five emotions into characters who share one control panel and one very ordinary crisis: a cross-country move.

What is Inside Out about?

When Riley's family leaves Minnesota for San Francisco, the change unsettles more than her school schedule. Joy has run Riley's mind since infancy, steering her toward cheerful memories and away from anything gloomier, while Sadness, Fear, Anger and Disgust wait their turn at the controls. A misplaced core memory sends Joy and Sadness tumbling out of headquarters and into the wider landscape of Riley's mind, leaving Fear, Anger and Disgust to run a preteen alone through a new house, a new school and a hockey tryout that goes badly. Finding a way back becomes a lesson in what sadness is actually for.

About the cast

Amy Poehler voices Joy and Phyllis Smith voices Sadness, the pairing the film's plot is built around, alongside Bill Hader as Fear, Lewis Black as Anger and Mindy Kaling as Disgust. Richard Kind appears as Riley's imaginary childhood friend, Kaitlyn Dias voices Riley herself, and Diane Lane plays her mother. Pete Docter, who also made Up and Monsters, Inc., directs.

Context & significance

Inside Out arrived from Pixar in 2015 as an adventure-comedy that is also, structurally, a family drama, built around a premise few animated features had tried before: staging the story inside a single character's mind rather than around her. Its blend of genres — adventure, comedy, drama and a touch of fantasy logic in how memory and imagination are drawn — earned it a strong critical reception on release and a lasting place among discussions of the best-regarded family films of its decade.

Watching Inside Out on Ktime

Inside Out streams on K-Time with a Persian dub and Persian subtitles, so it plays comfortably for viewers who want the film in Farsi or with Farsi support alongside the English original. The page is free to browse; watching it requires only a free K-Time account login, through the platform's Farsi-first interface built for the Iranian diaspora.