Somewhere in a suburb caught on permanent repeat, two teenagers realize they are the only ones who notice the day resetting, and set out to map every small wonder hidden inside it.
What is The Map of Tiny Perfect Things about?
Mark has already spent what feels like countless identical mornings in his neighborhood pool, at the diner, and back in his own bedroom by nightfall, until he meets Margaret, who is stuck in the exact same loop and has been keeping a private catalogue of the tiny, easily missed moments the day has to offer. Rather than racing to escape the repetition the way a stranger might expect, the two start hunting together for perfect, fleeting occurrences: a dog catching a frisbee just right, a couple's first kiss glimpsed from across a lawn, a piece of music landing at the exact right second. Ian Samuels directs from a screenplay adapted from Lev Grossman's short story, and the film treats the endless-day premise less as a puzzle to solve than as an excuse to notice a town most people sleepwalk through.
About the cast
Kyle Allen plays Mark and Kathryn Newton plays Margaret, with Jermaine Harris, Josh Hamilton, Cleo Fraser, and Anna Mikami filling out the surrounding cast of family and friends who keep living an ordinary day while the two leads quietly notice everything about it.
Context & significance
The film adapts a short story by novelist Lev Grossman, folding the well-worn time-loop setup into a teen romance rather than a comedy or thriller. Ian Samuels, working from that source material, leans the film toward observation over spectacle, letting the repeated day become a device for paying closer attention to a place rather than a trap to be cracked with clever tricks. Its comedy-fantasy-romance mix places it alongside a run of genre-blending teen films from its release year that used a fantastical hook mainly to talk about noticing the people and places already in front of you.
Watching The Map of Tiny Perfect Things on Ktime
The Map of Tiny Perfect Things is available on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, letting Farsi-speaking viewers follow Mark and Margaret's search for perfect moments in their own language or with the original dialogue. The page itself is free to browse, and watching only requires a free K-Time account login through an interface built with Persian-speaking audiences in mind.