Director: Nadia Conners
A garden party meant to celebrate a Hollywood marriage turns strange the moment an uninvited guest arrives insisting she belongs there far more than anyone realizes.
What is The Uninvited about?
Set over one long evening at a hillside Los Angeles home, The Uninvited centers on a party thrown to smooth over the tensions of a marriage between an aging producer and his younger wife, a former actress trying to find her footing outside the spotlight. Among the guests are her husband's former partner, a mother wrestling with her own fading memory, and eventually a woman nobody remembers inviting, whose presence starts to blur the line between social awkwardness and something closer to the uncanny. As the night stretches on, old resentments, unspoken grief and questions about who truly belongs in this house surface one by one, and the film lets fantasy and mystery elements seep quietly into what begins as a very grounded story about marriage and aging in an industry built on youth.
Cast & crew
Elizabeth Reaser plays the wife trying to hold the evening together, opposite Walton Goggins as her husband and Rufus Sewell as a guest whose history with the family complicates the night further. Lois Smith brings weight to the role of a mother losing her grip on memory, while Eva De Dominici plays the mysterious arrival at the center of the story, with Pedro Pascal, Michael Panes and Kate Comer rounding out the ensemble.
Context & significance
Written and directed by Nadia Conners, The Uninvited premiered in 2024 and mixes its supernatural-tinged mystery with a sharply observed satire of Hollywood's relationship to age, beauty and ambition. In Iran and across the Persian-speaking diaspora, the film has also circulated under the Farsi title Bigonah.
Where & how to watch
The Uninvited streams on K-Time with Farsi subtitles, so the film's dialogue-driven tension comes through clearly for Persian-speaking viewers. This page is free to read without an account; watching the film itself just requires logging into K-Time for free, on a service built with a fully Farsi interface for the diaspora.