A quiet Midwestern town turns into the setting for the unexplainable in Adeline, a 2022 faith-inflected drama from director Greg James.
What is Adeline about?
When a mysterious woman arrives in a small Midwestern community with a horse that seems to carry a healing presence, the town's ordinary rhythms give way to something the residents cannot fully explain. Adeline follows the ripple effects of her arrival as neighbors, skeptics, and believers alike are pulled into events that test what they thought they understood about their own lives. Greg James directs a cast led by John Schneider and David Chokachi, with Erin Bethea, Jake Satow, Dara Jade Tiller, Orli Gottesman, Shane Brady, and James himself rounding out the ensemble. The film stays close to its small-town setting throughout, building its story around community reaction rather than spectacle, and treating the mysterious woman and her horse as the quiet center around which the town's changes unfold.
About the cast
John Schneider and David Chokachi lead an ensemble built around long-running television and film actors, with Erin Bethea and Jake Satow filling out key roles. Director Greg James also appears on screen, alongside Dara Jade Tiller, Orli Gottesman, and Shane Brady, giving the film a tightly knit cast working within a single community setting.
Context & significance
Adeline belongs to a wave of faith-and-family dramas that center a small American town and treat an unexplained event as the catalyst for a community-wide reckoning, a genre with a steady audience in the United States that has increasingly found viewers abroad through streaming. Released in 2022 and running 97 minutes, the film keeps its scope modest and its focus tight on the Midwestern setting that gives the story its texture.
Watching Adeline on Ktime
Adeline is available on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, giving Farsi-speaking audiences a choice of how to watch. A free K-Time account login is all that is needed to stream; the page describing the film can be read without signing in. K-Time's Farsi-first design brings smaller, community-focused dramas like this one to the Iranian diaspora alongside its wider catalog.