When a biotech giant takes a Canadian farmer to court over seeds he never planted, Percy turns an obscure lawsuit into a full-blown fight over who owns what grows in the ground.

What is Percy about?

Percy dramatizes the real legal battle of a Canadian canola farmer whose fields end up carrying a corporation's patented, genetically modified seed after it drifts in from neighboring farms and passing trucks. Rather than treating the contamination as an accident, the company pursues him for patent infringement, and what begins as a local dispute grows into a prolonged, expensive fight that pulls in lawyers, activists, and the wider debate over who controls modified crops. The film follows the farmer as he digs in against a legal and financial machine built to outlast him.

About the cast

Christopher Walken plays the farmer at the center of the case, with Christina Ricci as an activist who becomes involved in his fight and Zach Braff as one of the lawyers around him. Roberta Maxwell, Adam Beach, Luke Kirby, Zoe Fish, and Blake Taylor complete a cast built around courtroom and small-town scenes rather than large set pieces, keeping the story grounded in its rural setting.

Context & significance

Directed by Clark Johnson, Percy is a 2021 Canadian biographical drama that turns a real patent dispute into a story about scale, an individual farmer against a multinational company with far more lawyers and far more time. Rather than playing the case for courtroom fireworks, the film stays close to its central figure's stubbornness and the toll a years-long legal fight takes on an ordinary working life, using the lawsuit as a lens on corporate power in agriculture.

Watching Percy on Ktime

Percy is available on K-Time with Persian dubbing, and watching only requires a free account login, with this page itself free to read regardless. K-Time's Farsi-first catalogue and interface make it easy for Persian-speaking viewers to find dramas like Percy alongside other true-story titles built around ordinary people up against larger institutions.