Three friends set off on a cross-country road trip chasing a gig that isn't quite what they think it is, in this comedy from director Lee Kirk.
What is Nimrods about?
Nimrods follows a trio of friends who pile into a car and head from Kansas City to Los Angeles, convinced their band has landed a spot opening for Green Day on New Year's Eve. What plays out along the way is less about the destination than the friction and loyalty between the three of them, as the trip forces a reckoning with how far apart their expectations and reality have drifted. Lee Kirk builds the film around that gap between ambition and delusion, mining it for both comedy and something more tender as the road narrows their options and sharpens what actually matters to each of them. The music-scene backdrop gives the story a specific texture, band politics, small-time gigs, the particular embarrassment of overselling yourself to people who matter, without the film ever needing a real music-industry breakthrough to land its point. At just under two hours, there's room for the trip's detours as well as its destination.
About the cast
Mason Thames, Kylr Coffman and Ryan Foust play the traveling trio, with Jenna Fischer, Mckenna Grace, Angela Kinsey, Keen Ruffalo and Ignacio Diaz-Silverio rounding out the ensemble.
Context & significance
The film belongs to a long tradition of road-trip comedies that use a chase, for a gig, a girl, a break, as an excuse to put friends in a car together and see what shakes loose, with the music-industry setting giving Nimrods its own flavor of delusion and ambition. It has landed as one of the more warmly received comedies in its release window, praised in general terms for the chemistry between its three leads.
Watching Nimrods on Ktime
Nimrods is available on K-Time with a free account login, and can be watched with Persian dub or Persian subtitles, part of K-Time's growing slate of English-language comedies curated for Persian-speaking viewers.