Director: Jigeesh Magar
Tacoma is a 2024 American science-fiction thriller that blends laboratory tension with intimate family drama, following two researchers whose personal struggles quietly shape the risky experiment at the center of the story.
What is Tacoma about?
The film centers on Leo and Alejandra, two scientists working toward an experimental serum they believe could change the lives of people close to them. Their research is driven as much by love and desperation as by ambition, and the strain of the work steadily surfaces old wounds and private fears. As the pair edges nearer to a breakthrough, the line between saving the people they care about and losing themselves to obsession becomes harder to hold. Set against a grounded, contemporary backdrop, the story leans on suspense and character conflict rather than spectacle, keeping its focus on the emotional cost of a single ambitious goal. Running about ninety minutes, it stays tight and contained, building tension through the strained relationship between its two leads and the stakes riding on their work.
Cast & crew
The cast is led by Karrie Martin Lachney and Asher Deva, with Aylya Marzolf and Alejandro Patino in supporting roles. Veteran actor Eric Roberts also appears within the ensemble. Because the film spends much of its runtime in close quarters, the interplay between the central performers carries the drama, and the smaller supporting turns fill out the world around the two leads.
Context & significance
Tacoma was directed by Jigeesh Magar and released in 2024. It is an American production that sits at the intersection of drama, science fiction, and thriller, using a small-scale premise to examine how far people will go for the ones they love. The film runs roughly ninety minutes and carries an IMDb user rating of 5.4. Its contained structure and character-driven approach place it closer to grounded genre storytelling than to large-scale spectacle, with the scientific premise serving as a frame for a more intimate study of ambition and personal strain. The result is a compact, self-contained feature rather than a sprawling one.
Where & how to watch
Tacoma is available to stream on K-Time with a free account login. This page is free to read without signing in, while watching the film requires logging in to your K-Time account. K-Time serves the Iranian diaspora with a fully Farsi interface, and this title includes both a Persian dub and Persian subtitles, so you can watch it dubbed or with subtitles depending on your preference.