A widowed father and his young son find their footing again on the road to a baseball game in Color Book, a quiet 2024 drama set across Metro Atlanta.
What is Color Book about?
After his wife's death, a father is left to raise their son, who has Down syndrome, entirely on his own. Grief sits under everything the two of them do, but the film keeps its focus small: errands, routines, and the promise of a first baseball game together. What starts as a simple trip across the city becomes a series of encounters that test how much this father can lean on people he barely knows, and how much his son is ready to do without him close by. Color Book resists a tidy arc toward healing. Instead it stays with the practical, day-to-day work of two people figuring out how to be a family of two, one afternoon at a time.
About the cast
William Catlett anchors the film as the father, working opposite Brandee Evans and Terri J. Vaughn in supporting roles that widen the world around him without crowding the central relationship. Jeremiah Daniels plays the son, and the film builds much of its emotional weight around the rapport the two actors establish on screen.
Context & significance
Director David Fritz Fortune sets the story against real Metro Atlanta locations rather than a soundstage version of the city, which gives the father-and-son trip its unhurried, lived-in texture. The film arrived on the festival circuit as part of a wave of American independent dramas centering disability, grief, and single fatherhood without leaning on sentimentality to do the work.
Watching Color Book on Ktime
Color Book streams on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, so Farsi-speaking viewers can follow the father-son story in their own language. Watching requires a free K-Time account login; the film's page itself is open to read without one, in keeping with K-Time's Farsi-first experience for the Iranian diaspora.