Streamline follows a teenage swimmer whose talent in the pool cannot hold back everything falling apart around him. The 2021 Australian drama comes from director Tyson Wade Johnston and stars Levi Miller.
What is Streamline about?
Codie is fifteen and already being talked about as a future champion, training with a discipline that leaves little room for anything else. When his father is released from prison, the fragile order Codie has built for himself starts to come undone. At the pool he can still control every stroke and every split, but outside it he drifts toward older friends, late nights and choices that pull him further from the routine that made him fast in the first place. His mother and coach watch the gap widen between the disciplined swimmer they know and the restless teenager he is becoming, without being able to close it. The film moves back and forth between the sealed, quiet world of competitive swimming and the messier one Codie can't seem to stay out of, building toward a moment where he has to choose which version of himself he actually wants to be.
About the cast
Levi Miller plays Codie with a coiled, watchful energy that carries the film's quieter stretches. Laura Gordon appears as his mother, caught between pride in his talent and worry about where he's headed, while Jake Ryan takes on the role of his newly released father. Tasia Zalar, Sam Parsonson, Robert Morgan, Hunter Page-Lochard and Isaac Drandic fill out the surrounding cast of coaches, friends and family.
Context & significance
Streamline is an Australian production running 86 minutes, told mostly through Codie's point of view rather than through a coach's or parent's lecture about wasted potential. The pool scenes are shot with a tight, almost claustrophobic focus that mirrors how narrow Codie's world has become, in contrast to the wider, looser framing once he steps outside it. On release the film drew a solidly positive response, with particular praise for Levi Miller's lead performance and for a script that resists tidy redemption. Genre-wise it sits between sports drama and coming-of-age story, and on K-Time it keeps company with other titles about young people under pressure from adults who mean well but don't always help.
Watching Streamline on Ktime
Streamline can be watched on K-Time, and simply reading about it here costs nothing; starting the film itself calls for a free account login. The film plays in its original English soundtrack, with no Persian dub or Persian subtitles attached, though it remains part of a catalogue shaped around the Farsi-speaking diaspora, from menu language to the way each title is framed for that audience.