Director: Austin Stark, Joseph Schuman
Coup drops a 22-year-old bank clerk into the middle of a corruption accusation and lets the fallout play out as dark comedy rather than courtroom drama.
What is Coup about?
The premise is simple on paper: a young employee at a bank finds himself the face of a financial scandal that reaches far beyond his own desk. What follows is less a mystery than a slow unraveling of who actually benefits when a system built on trust starts eating its own. Peter Sarsgaard and Billy Magnussen lead a cast pulled into the mess through overlapping loyalties, ambitions, and blind spots, with Sarah Gadon and Skye P. Marshall adding pressure from angles the young clerk never sees coming. Directors Austin Stark and Joseph Schuman keep the pace tight and the tone wry, treating institutional rot as material for comedy rather than outrage, and letting the audience decide how much of the blame lands where the accusation first pointed.
Cast & crew
Peter Sarsgaard and Billy Magnussen anchor the ensemble, joined by Sarah Gadon, Skye P. Marshall, Faran Tahir, Kristine Nielsen, Fisher Stevens, and Callum Vinson in supporting roles that widen the scandal's circle of complicity.
Context & significance
Coup is a 2024 American production co-directed by Austin Stark and Joseph Schuman, running a brisk 82 minutes and framed as a crime comedy rather than a straight financial thriller, closer in spirit to satire than to a based-on-headlines exposé. Its compact runtime keeps the plot moving without lingering on procedural detail, favoring character reactions and escalating absurdity over the kind of methodical unpacking a straight drama about financial crime might attempt.
Where & how to watch
Coup is streaming on K-Time with a free account login, available with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles through a Farsi-oriented viewing experience built for the Iranian diaspora.