An ex-Green Beret leads his family to a fortified mountain compound after a nuclear strike on Los Angeles in Homestead, a 2024 American thriller that plants a western standoff on modern, unsettled ground.
What is Homestead about?
When a nuclear bomb is detonated in Los Angeles and the power grid fails, the country slides into chaos faster than anyone expected. Former Green Beret Jeff Eriksson gathers his family and heads for the Homestead, a self-sufficient fortress in the mountains built by an eccentric, wealthy prepper who has spent years planning for exactly this. Inside the walls there are supplies, weapons and a plan; outside, desperate refugees, armed opportunists and eventually government officials all start pressing on the borders. The film builds tension through dwindling options rather than large-scale action, following the residents as they argue over who gets in, how much to share, and how far to go to protect what they have. Jeff's hard security instincts keep colliding with the more charitable impulses of the compound's owners, and the story uses that friction — survival versus conscience, a fence versus an open gate — as its emotional core. The western trappings (isolated land, armed strangers, a community defending what's theirs) sit inside a contemporary survival-thriller structure, and the question the film keeps asking is how long a group of people can resist both the dangers of human nature and the bloodshed at their doorstep.
About the cast
Neal McDonough and Dawn Olivieri play Ian and Jenna Ross, the couple who own the Homestead and whose willingness to open the gate sets the film's central argument in motion, while Bailey Chase plays Jeff Eriksson, the ex-Green Beret brought in to keep the compound secure, with Kearran Giovanni as his wife Tara; Susan Misner, Jesse Hutch, Currie Graham and Kevin Lawson round out the ensemble on both sides of the walls, and the film's tension rests as much on those household negotiations as on the threats outside.
Context & significance
Directed by Ben Smallbone and released to American cinemas in December 2024, Homestead runs just under two hours, a length that gives its siege structure room to breathe without padding out a fairly simple premise. Critics were divided, while audience polling at release was noticeably warmer, and the film did well enough on a modest budget that a companion series continuing the story was launched alongside it.
Watching Homestead on Ktime
Homestead is available on K-Time with both Persian dub and Persian subtitles, giving viewers the option that suits them best. Watching only requires a free K-Time account and login, and the platform's Farsi-language interface is built with Iranian diaspora audiences in mind.