Getting a four-year-old into the right preschool should not require a strategist, but that is exactly what two rival fathers decide it takes in Preschool, a 2026 comedy from director Josh Duhamel.
What is Preschool about?
The premise is simple and a little ridiculous: an elite preschool has exactly one open seat, and two fathers each want it for their own kid. What starts as polite competitiveness at an admissions open house tips quickly into an arms race of favors, schemes, and increasingly petty one-upmanship, with neither man willing to be the first to back down. Duhamel directs and stars, playing one half of the rivalry opposite Michael Socha, while Antonia Thomas, Charity Wakefield, Fenella Woolgar and James Cosmo round out a cast of parents, administrators, and bystanders who get pulled into the fallout. The joke of the film is the mismatch between the stakes everyone is treating as enormous and the stakes that are actually on the table — a single classroom spot for a child too young to know or care that a war is being fought over it. As the escalation spirals, the film leans into the absurdity of parenting culture at its most competitive, using the preschool admissions process as a stand-in for a much broader, much sillier form of status anxiety.
About the cast
Josh Duhamel directs and takes a lead role, working opposite British actor Michael Socha as the two competing fathers. Antonia Thomas, Charity Wakefield, Fenella Woolgar and James Cosmo fill out the ensemble, with Colin Michael Carmichael and Arris Crooke also appearing.
Context & significance
Preschool is a joint United States and United Kingdom production, running 104 minutes and pitched squarely at a broad comedy audience. The transatlantic cast and crew give it a slightly different flavor than a purely American studio comedy, blending British character actors into an American-style premise about competitive parenting.
Watching Preschool on Ktime
Preschool is available to watch on K-Time with a free account login, with both Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles included for viewers who prefer to watch in Farsi. K-Time's Farsi-first interface makes it easy for Persian-speaking households anywhere to find and queue up comedies like this one alongside the rest of the catalog.