A kidnapped cousin and a reluctant alliance drive Among the Beasts, pairing a gangster's daughter with a former Marine who has his own war to finish fighting.
What is Among the Beasts about?
When the young cousin of a crime family goes missing, the family's daughter has to look outside her usual circle for help, and finds it in a combat veteran trying to keep his own past at arm's length. The two make an uneasy team from the start, her connections and his training pulling in different directions even as the clock on finding the child keeps running. As the search pushes deeper into dangerous territory, the film keeps circling back to the veteran's own unresolved battles, using the rescue mission as the pressure that forces him to confront what he's been avoiding. It's a chase story that uses its thriller mechanics to dig into character as much as plot, with the mystery of where the child has been taken running parallel to the mystery of what's actually eating at its lead.
About the cast
Tory Kittles and Libe Barer anchor the film as the unlikely partners at its center, with Sarunas J. Jackson, Kate Easton, Jeremy Holm, Mark Mitton, Jon Bass, and Jim Norton rounding out the wider cast pulled into the search.
Context & significance
Directed by Matthew Newton, Among the Beasts sits in the lane of American action-thrillers built around a small cast and a ticking-clock rescue, leaning on its combat-veteran lead to give the genre's usual chase-and-fight beats a heavier emotional undertow than a straight action picture would carry. The mystery and thriller elements work alongside the action rather than against it, keeping the search for the missing cousin as tense as any of the film's confrontations.
Watching Among the Beasts on Ktime
Among the Beasts streams on K-Time with a Farsi dub and Persian subtitles, so it's fully accessible to Persian-speaking viewers. A free K-Time account login is needed to watch; this page can be read without signing in.