Amy Landecker steps behind the camera for For Worse, a 2026 comedy about a woman rebuilding her sense of self at exactly the wrong — and right — moment.
What is For Worse about?
Lauren has just come out of a divorce and gotten sober, and an acting class turns into the first place she feels like herself again — helped along by a fling with a much younger scene partner. That fragile new confidence gets tested when the couple shows up together at a wedding thrown by one of Lauren's Gen Z classmates, surrounded by a generation that parties on entirely different terms than she remembers. The night spirals in ways Lauren doesn't expect, stripping away the composure she'd been building and leaving her to figure out, hungover and humbled, what her next chapter actually looks like.
About the cast
Landecker directs and stars alongside Bradley Whitford, Nico Hiraga, Missi Pyle, Gaby Hoffmann, Kiersey Clemons, Ken Marino and Paul Adelstein, an ensemble built for exactly this kind of generational-gap comedy of manners.
Context & significance
For Worse arrives as part of a steady wave of films examining midlife reinvention through comedy rather than melodrama, pairing a divorced, sober lead with the specific culture clash of a wedding thrown by a much younger crowd. The setup — an older character navigating younger social codes she barely recognizes — gives the film its central comic engine, while keeping its focus on Lauren's own reckoning with who she's becoming after her marriage ends. It's also a notable directing turn for Landecker, who is better known to audiences as a performer, putting her own comic instincts to work from the other side of the camera.
Watching For Worse on Ktime
For Worse is available on K-Time with Farsi dubbing and Farsi subtitles, presented through the platform's Farsi-first interface for Persian-speaking viewers everywhere. Browsing the page costs nothing; streaming the film itself just requires logging into a K-Time account.