Directed by Shaun Paul Piccinino, Lady Driver (2020) follows a restless teenager whose summer away from home leads her to the driver's seat. The American sports film runs 104 minutes and plays on K-Time with a Persian dub.
What is Lady Driver about?
She is young, headstrong and tired of being told what to do. When summer comes, the girl at the centre of Lady Driver sets off alone, hoping to learn more about where she comes from. The trip drops her into surroundings she has never known, with its own rules, its own people and its own kind of speed. There she is handed the chance of a lifetime behind the wheel. As the season goes on, she finds that the talent and the nerve she needs were never something to be borrowed from anyone else; they had been hers from the start.
About the cast
Grace Van Dien leads the billing, with Sean Patrick Flanery, Christina Moore and Casper Van Dien next on the list. Amanda Detmer, John Ducey, Matthew Joel Kranyak and David Gridley round out the cast. Shaun Paul Piccinino is the director.
Context & significance
Lady Driver belongs to a familiar and durable branch of the sports film: the coming-of-age story in which a young outsider discovers a gift and has to earn a place among people who have been at it far longer. The genre usually pairs competition with family history, and this film does the same, tying its heroine's time at the wheel to a search for her own roots. That makes it as much a story about identity and belonging as about winning. The summer setting gives the plot a natural shape, with a beginning, a period of learning and a final test before life returns to normal. It is a United States production from 2020, and its tone and subject make it an easy choice for family viewing, especially for younger viewers who like stories about determination. A teenage girl at the centre of a driving story is also a point of difference in a field that more often puts young men in the car.
Watching Lady Driver on Ktime
K-Time offers Lady Driver dubbed into Persian. Anyone can read this page; to press play you need to log in with a K-Time account. Menus, search and film pages are all in Farsi, designed for Iranian households living outside the country.