A children's TV science host who never became an astronaut starts building a rocket in his garage, and Linoleum quietly turns that midlife itch into something far stranger than a hobby project.
What is Linoleum about?
Colin West's Linoleum follows the host of a struggling children's science program who decides to chase a childhood dream of spaceflight by assembling a rocket at home. What begins as a backyard project pulls him into a run of increasingly odd occurrences that make him doubt what he's actually experiencing, blurring the line between memory, wish, and present-day life. The 2023 American film moves between comedy, drama, and science fiction, using its ensemble to hold those tonal shifts together without losing the warmth underneath the strangeness.
About the cast
Jim Gaffigan leads the cast, joined by Rhea Seehorn, Katelyn Nacon, Gabriel Rush, Amy Hargreaves, West Duchovny, Michael Ian Black, and Tony Shalhoub. The lineup pairs performers known for comedy with others known for drama, a mix that suits a film built around constant tonal shifts.
Context & significance
Linoleum sits in a small but durable strand of American independent cinema that uses a homemade space program as a stand-in for unfinished ambition, treating the idea of building a rocket in a suburban garage as earnest rather than a punchline. Running 101 minutes and spanning comedy, drama, and sci-fi, it has built a reputation as a modest, well-regarded discovery rather than a wide theatrical event, the kind of title that tends to travel by word of mouth.
Watching Linoleum on Ktime
Linoleum streams on K-Time with both a Persian dub and Persian subtitles, so it can be watched in Farsi or in the original English with Farsi text on screen. Watching requires only a free K-Time account login; the film's page itself is open to read without signing in, and the search, subtitle, and interface experience is built around Farsi-speaking viewers in the diaspora who want an easy, no-friction way to find offbeat titles like this one.