Director: Susanna Fogel
A single bad first date spirals into something far messier in Cat Person, a comedy-thriller that turns a viral short story's premise into a slow-burn character study.
What is Cat Person about?
Margot, a college sophomore, spends weeks trading playful, flirty texts with Robert, an older man she barely knows in person. When the two finally meet for a real date, the version of him she has been imagining online doesn't line up with who shows up in front of her, and the mismatch curdles the evening in ways neither of them expects. What starts as an awkward, oddly funny account of modern dating gradually tightens into something more unsettling, as Margot tries to figure out how much of her unease is instinct and how much is overthinking. The film leans into that discomfort rather than resolving it quickly, using the gap between a text-message persona and a real person to ask harder questions about trust, attraction and reading the wrong signals.
Cast & crew
Susanna Fogel directs Emilia Jones as Margot and Nicholas Braun as Robert, with a supporting cast that includes Geraldine Viswanathan, Hope Davis, Liza Koshy, Fred Melamed, Isabella Rossellini and Isaac Powell. Jones carries much of the film's internal tension, while Braun plays against type in a role built around ambiguity rather than easy villainy or easy charm.
Context & significance
Cat Person is adapted from Kristen Roupenian's short story of the same name, which became a widely discussed piece of online fiction after it ran in The New Yorker. Bringing that story to the screen means expanding a text-message-driven premise into a full film, and the adaptation keeps the original's interest in perception versus reality, particularly around how quickly attraction can turn into unease. A French-American co-production running 118 minutes, it sits somewhere between comedy and thriller rather than settling firmly in either genre.
Where & how to watch
Cat Person is available on K-Time with both Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, and this page can be browsed without creating an account. Reading the synopsis, cast notes and FAQs is free; streaming the film itself requires logging into a K-Time account. K-Time's interface is built in Farsi for Persian-speaking viewers, so navigation, search and recommendations are designed around that audience rather than translated after the fact.