A pair of overlooked seniors decide the surest way to matter before graduation is to run a club nobody actually believes in, and the fallout turns into one of 2023's sharpest high-school comedies.
What is Bottoms about?
Bottoms follows two socially invisible friends who invent an after-school group built on a premise almost nobody buys, using it as cover to get closer to classmates who have never noticed them before. What starts as a flimsy pretext escalates fast: recruits show up expecting one thing, the founders scramble to keep the story straight, and the school's social order starts bending in directions nobody planned for. Director Emma Seligman leans into exaggerated, almost cartoonish comic logic rather than realism, treating teen anxiety and desire as material for absurdist set pieces instead of earnest coming-of-age beats. The tone stays deliberately heightened throughout, more interested in escalating gags and character embarrassment than in delivering a tidy lesson, which is part of why the film built a loyal following on the festival and awards-season circuit after its 2023 release.
About the cast
Rachel Sennott and Ayo Edebiri lead as the two friends at the center of the scheme, with Ruby Cruz, Havana Rose Liu, Kaia Gerber, Nicholas Galitzine, Miles Fowler and Marshawn Lynch rounding out a cast that leans hard into the film's exaggerated comic register. The ensemble commits fully to the heightened tone Seligman is going for, playing embarrassment and bravado as broadly as the script allows rather than pulling toward naturalism.
Context & significance
Bottoms arrived in 2023 as part of a run of American comedies willing to push teen-movie conventions into stranger, more stylized territory, with Seligman directing from a script she co-wrote. It holds a solidly favorable standing with critics and became something of a word-of-mouth favorite rather than a mainstream blockbuster, the kind of title diaspora audiences often discover through recommendation rather than marketing.
Watching Bottoms on Ktime
Bottoms streams on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, so it plays comfortably for Farsi-speaking households without sacrificing the film's rapid-fire dialogue. This page is free to read for anyone; watching the film itself just needs a K-Time account login, and the interface, search and recommendations are all built around a Farsi-first experience for the Iranian diaspora.