Director: Joel Souza
Rust is a 2025 American Western directed by Joel Souza. Running about 139 minutes, the film unfolds across the open plains of 1880s Kansas and follows a family bond that takes shape under the shadow of the gallows.
What is Rust about?
In Kansas in the 1880s, a thirteen-year-old boy is left alone after both of his parents die, tasked with raising his younger brother on an unforgiving frontier. While struggling to keep the two of them alive, he becomes caught up in a killing that the court rules accidental, yet he is still sentenced to hang. His grandfather, an aging outlaw who has carried a bounty on his head for as long as anyone can remember and who has been absent from the boy's life for years, travels to Kansas and breaks him out of custody. The two then run together across hostile country, tracked by lawmen and bounty hunters, as a wary trust slowly forms between them.
Cast & crew
Alec Baldwin stars as Harland Rust, the outlaw grandfather, and Patrick Scott McDermott plays the young Lucas at the center of the story. The supporting cast includes Travis Fimmel and Josh Hopkins as figures on the pair's trail, alongside Todd Bryant, Luce Rains, Sean J. Dillingham, and Bryant Carroll, who fill out the lawmen, drifters, and townspeople of the frontier setting.
Context & significance
Rust sits within the Western tradition, using the outlaw-on-the-run framework to trace a relationship between an estranged grandfather and grandson across the American frontier. Joel Souza directed from a story built around pursuit, survival, and family ties. The production drew broad public attention after an on-set incident in 2021 in which the cinematographer, Halyna Hutchins, died; filming was later completed and the picture was released in 2025. With an IMDb rating of roughly 5.6 and a 139-minute runtime, it arrived as a period Western aimed at viewers drawn to frontier drama.
Where & how to watch
You can watch Rust on K-Time with both a Persian dub and Persian subtitles, so viewers can follow the frontier dialogue in Farsi. Streaming requires a K-Time account login, while this page itself stays free to read. The Farsi-first interface is built for the Iranian diaspora, keeping menus, search, and playback controls in Persian.