With less than two days on the clock and a shelter place that could slip away at any checkpoint, Greenland (2020) shrinks the end of the world down to one family in a car. Ric Roman Waugh directs this 119-minute action thriller, led by Gerard Butler and Morena Baccarin.
What is Greenland about?
A massive object from space is on course to hit Earth, and the authorities have quietly started picking people for places in underground bunkers. One household gets the call: a husband and wife whose marriage has been drifting apart, and their young son. The selection is random, and it arrives with instructions, deadlines and a long list of things that can go wrong on the way. What follows is a scramble across a country that is losing its grip, through jammed roads, frightened crowds and neighbours who were not chosen. The parents have to keep their son safe, keep each other in sight and reach the shelter before the window closes. The story stays close to the three of them, measuring the catastrophe by what it does to a single family instead of by the size of the destruction.
About the cast
Gerard Butler heads the cast alongside Morena Baccarin, with Roger Dale Floyd also among the principal players. Scott Glenn adds a veteran presence, and the ensemble is filled out by Andrew Bachelor, David Denman, Brandon Quinn and Hayes Mercure. Behind the camera is Ric Roman Waugh, the film's sole credited director.
Context & significance
Greenland belongs to the disaster genre, but it sits at the more grounded end of it. Its listed genres are action, drama and thriller, and the drama carries real weight: the central question is whether a strained couple can work as a team when it counts. The film is a co-production between the United Kingdom and the United States, released in 2020. Viewers who usually find end-of-the-world spectacles too loud or too impersonal may find this kind of story easier to connect with, because the stakes are a child, a marriage and a place in a queue. Its reception was respectable without being rapturous.
Watching Greenland on Ktime
Greenland is on K-Time with both a Persian dub and Persian subtitles, so you can choose whichever version suits the room. This page is free to read; playing the film requires signing in with a K-Time account. The service is built for Persian-speaking viewers abroad, with a Farsi interface from the home screen to the player.