Long before he was a household name, Keanu Reeves had a childhood that gave no hint of the career ahead of him — this documentary traces that distance.
What is Keanu Reeves: The One and Only about?
Keanu Reeves: The One and Only is a documentary portrait built around the arc of its subject's life: a difficult early upbringing, an unusual path into acting, and a decades-long screen career that turned him into one of the most recognizable performers working today. Rather than focusing on a single film or franchise, the documentary treats his reputation off-screen — as someone consistently described by collaborators as generous and grounded — as inseparable from his work on it. Voices from within his professional circle, including longtime collaborators, speak to both sides of that reputation across the film's roughly fifty-minute runtime. The result plays less like a straight career retrospective and more like an attempt to explain why so many people who have worked alongside him, on set and off, speak of him in similar terms.
About the cast
The documentary features Keanu Reeves himself alongside director and stunt collaborator Chad Stahelski and actor Carrie-Anne Moss, both of whom have worked alongside him across multiple projects and speak to his process and reputation from that vantage point.
Context & significance
Director Angelica Butcher assembles the film from interviews and career retrospection rather than a single narrative thread, positioning it as a portrait piece for viewers already familiar with Reeves's filmography rather than a chronological biography. It was produced in the United States and released in 2024, arriving as one of several documentary looks at working actors that have gathered testimony from the people who share sets and stunt rigs with them rather than relying solely on archival footage.
Watching Keanu Reeves: The One and Only on Ktime
Keanu Reeves: The One and Only streams on K-Time with a free account login, sitting alongside the platform's wider documentary and biography selection. K-Time's Farsi-language interface makes it simple for Persian-speaking viewers to find English-language documentaries like this one and queue them up for later.