Director: Sara Zandieh
Zoey Miller has spreadsheets for everything except her own heart, which is exactly the problem when the school's soccer star wakes up convinced she's his girlfriend.
What is The Other Zoey about?
Zoey is a brilliant computer science major who has never made much room for romance, treating it as a variable she'd rather not solve for. Everything shifts when Zack, the campus's star soccer player, takes a hit on the field and wakes up with a chunk of his memory missing, including the small detail that he and Zoey have never actually dated. Convinced she's the girlfriend he can't quite remember clearly, Zack starts showing up in her life in ways Zoey never planned for, and she finds herself going along with the mix-up rather than correcting it. Director Sara Zandieh plays the setup for warmth rather than farce, letting the accidental closeness between two people who'd never have crossed paths otherwise turn into something neither of them expected to want.
Cast & crew
Josephine Langford leads as Zoey opposite Drew Starkey as Zack, with Archie Renaux, Heather Graham, Andie MacDowell, Patrick Fabian, Jorge López, and Amalia Yoo filling out the supporting cast around the mistaken-identity premise, each character nudging Zoey toward decisions she'd normally overthink.
Context & significance
Released in 2023, the film sits comfortably in the campus rom-com tradition, using a lighthearted amnesia premise as a way to force two mismatched personalities together rather than as a medical drama. Its comedy leans on Zoey's analytical worldview colliding with Zack's easy charm, and the campus setting gives the story room for a wider circle of friends and family to weigh in on whether the two of them actually make sense as a couple.
Where & how to watch
The Other Zoey is available to stream on K-Time with a free account login, including Farsi dubbing and Persian subtitles for viewers who want to follow along in Farsi. K-Time's fully Farsi interface is built specifically for the Iranian diaspora watching from outside Iran.