Director: Mark Dindal
Long before he was a couch-bound lasagna enthusiast, Garfield had a life on the streets, and The Garfield Movie spends its 2024 runtime pulling that backstory into the open.
What is The Garfield Movie about?
A chance run-in with the father who abandoned him as a kitten drags the famously lazy orange cat out of his comfort zone and into a heist he never signed up for. Paired against his will with his long-lost dad and his own dog housemate, Garfield has to trade naps and lasagna for rooftop chases and warehouse break-ins, all while dodging a vengeful enforcer with a grudge from the past. The plot leans into slapstick set pieces and sight gags built for a family audience, but it also gives the reunion between father and son enough room to land as something more than a punchline. By the time the heist wraps up, the film has quietly turned its odd-couple family drama into the real engine of the story.
Cast & crew
Chris Pratt voices Garfield, joined by Samuel L. Jackson as the father cat driving the plot forward, with Hannah Waddingham, Ving Rhames, Nicholas Hoult, Cecily Strong, Harvey Guillén, and Brett Goldstein rounding out the voice cast. Mark Dindal, an animation veteran with a long résumé in the format, directs.
Context & significance
Built on the long-running comic strip rather than any single earlier film adaptation, this version leans fully into modern computer animation, trading the strip's newspaper-panel humor for chase sequences and heist mechanics scaled for the big screen. It's a production spanning multiple countries, reflecting how international the pipeline behind mainstream family animation has become.
Where & how to watch
The Garfield Movie streams with both a Persian dub and Persian subtitles, giving Farsi-speaking families a choice in how they watch. Browsing this page costs nothing, and pressing play just requires a free K-Time account login, inside a viewing experience built with a Farsi-first interface for Iranian households abroad.