Not every close encounter needs a spaceship battle. In Jules, a 2023 comedy-drama from director Marc Turtletaub, an elderly man's backyard becomes the unlikely setting for the strangest friendship of his life.
What is Jules about?
Milton has built his days around routine in a small western Pennsylvania town, the kind of steady, low-key life where little changes from one week to the next. That changes without warning when a UFO drops out of the sky and lands squarely in his backyard, its lone passenger stranded and in no hurry to leave. Rather than panic, Milton adjusts, folding this impossible visitor into his everyday habits the way he would any new neighbor. The film leans into that mismatch between an extraordinary event and Milton's unshakably ordinary response, finding both comedy and quiet emotion in how an isolated man reacts when something genuinely new interrupts his life. It is a small-scale story about connection more than a science-fiction spectacle, using its premise to look at loneliness, aging, and the surprise of being needed again.
About the cast
Ben Kingsley plays Milton, with Harriet Sansom Harris and Jane Curtin as neighbors drawn into his unusual situation, alongside Jade Quon, Teddy Cañez, Narea Kang, Edward James Hyland, and Blair Baker. The cast is built around veteran performers rather than a large ensemble, keeping the focus tight on a handful of relationships.
Context & significance
Jules premiered in 2023 as part of a small wave of science-fiction stories told from the perspective of older characters rather than young leads, using an alien-visitor premise to examine isolation and companionship instead of spectacle. Its western Pennsylvania setting keeps the story grounded in a specific, unglamorous place rather than an abstract anywhere-town.
Watching Jules on Ktime
Jules is available on K-Time with a Persian dub; no Persian subtitle track is currently attached to this title. Watching it requires only a free K-Time account, while the film's page itself can be browsed without logging in. K-Time's search, layout, and recommendations are all shaped around a Farsi-first viewing experience for Persian-speaking audiences abroad.