Director: Íce Mrozek
A wrong number in 1989 turns into the kind of connection neither caller expected in About Him & Her, a romance drawn from a real chain of events.
What is About Him Her about?
Two strangers end up on the same crossed phone line and, instead of hanging up, keep talking. What starts as an accident of old analog switchboards becomes a running conversation that neither party can quite walk away from. Told against the backdrop of a pre-internet America where a voice on the other end of the receiver was often a stranger for good, the film follows how trust builds in small increments across calls, missed calls, and eventually a decision to meet face to face. The setup is simple, but the film leans on the awkwardness and hope of that first real-world meeting after weeks of only hearing each other's voice.
Cast & crew
Cristina Spruell and Callan McAuliffe carry the two ends of the phone line, with Lisa Raggio, Sadie Brook, and Íce Mrozek — who also directs — rounding out the supporting circle around them.
Context & significance
Set in 1989, the film uses the mechanics of a crossed landline, a detail that reads as pure nostalgia now, to explain how two people who never planned to meet ended up talking for hours. The based-on-true-events framing keeps the tone grounded rather than played for melodrama, and the film spends more time on hesitant, ordinary dialogue than on any single dramatic turn. It belongs to a small but recognizable genre of stories about accidental intimacy — two voices who know each other only through sound long before they know each other's faces — and it treats that slow build with patience rather than rushing toward a single big reveal. Location work around a recognizable Philadelphia landmark adds a lived-in, specific sense of place rather than a generic backdrop.
Where & how to watch
About Him & Her streams on K-Time with Farsi dubbing and Farsi subtitles, so viewers can follow the two leads' conversations in either the original English or in Persian. The site itself is free to browse in Farsi; watching just needs a K-Time account login.