Five kids on a lunar mining colony sneak out for one last adventure together before a permanent move splits them up for good.
What is Crater about?
Grief and goodbye sit at the center of Crater, framed through a science-fiction setting that keeps the story grounded in something more personal than spectacle. After the death of his father, a boy growing up on a lunar mining colony learns his family is about to be permanently relocated to another planet — and with that news comes the end of the only life and friendships he's known. Before the move, he and his four closest friends set out across the colony's outskirts to find a legendary crater rumored to hold something extraordinary. What follows is less a heist through space than a coming-of-age road trip relocated to the surface of the moon, built around the ordinary business of saying goodbye to the people and places that shaped a childhood.
About the cast
Isaiah Russell-Bailey leads the group of friends alongside Mckenna Grace, Billy Barratt, and Orson Hong, with Kid Cudi and Selenis Leyva featured among the adult cast.
Context & significance
The film sits in family adventure territory more than hard science fiction, using its lunar-colony setting as a backdrop for a story about loss and friendship rather than as the focus itself. The relocation-to-another-planet premise gives the friend group's journey real stakes: whatever happens at the crater has to happen now, because there won't be another chance.
Watching Crater on Ktime
Crater streams on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles available alongside the English original. Watching requires logging into a free K-Time account, though the page itself is open to browse without one, and the platform is built with a Farsi-first experience for Persian-speaking families.