Caught Stealing Streaming Release Date Could Arrive Sooner Than Anyone Thought
The crime thriller made noise in theaters, but now everyone wants to know when they can watch it from home.
Been waiting to watch Darren Aronofsky do a dark, twisted cat-sitting caper from your couch? Same. Here is where things stand on when you can actually stream Caught Stealing at home, plus what this movie even is if you somehow missed the buzz.
What is Caught Stealing?
Caught Stealing is a dark comedy thriller directed by Academy Award nominee Darren Aronofsky and based on Charlie Huston's novel. Huston also wrote the screenplay. It hit theaters on August 29, 2025 and has been getting genuinely favorable notices from both critics and regular humans.
The cast is stacked: Austin Butler leads as Hank Thompson, with Regina King, Zoe Kravitz, and Matt Smith in major roles. The setup is very 'only-in-a-movie' in the best way: Hank is a former high school baseball star whose career crashed after a knee injury from a bad car wreck. Then his neighbor Russ (that's Smith) asks him to watch his cat, and before you can say 'this seems like a bad idea,' Hank is caught between gangsters and cops. Aronofsky doing a pitch-black, cat-adjacent crime spiral? That is a swing, and honestly it fits.
So when can you watch it at home?
There is no exact digital date yet because the movie is still in theaters, and Sony tends to let the box office breathe a bit before flipping the switch. The studio usually moves its films to digital purchase/rental somewhere in the 17–45 day range after theatrical release, but that window can stretch if ticket sales hold.
As for subscription streaming, Sony's films head to Netflix first after the initial digital window. Expect a few months of lag time there.
- Digital purchase/rental: likely 17–45 days after August 29, 2025 (timing depends on how the theatrical run performs)
- Netflix streaming: typically about 3–4 months after release, which puts it in late December 2025 or early January 2026 if the usual pattern holds
Bottom line: if you want it ASAP, keep an eye on the 3–6 week mark for a digital buy/rent drop. If you are waiting for it to land on Netflix, pencil in the holidays or the very start of 2026. Sony Pictures Entertainment is calling the shots on both, so exact dates will firm up as the box office picture does.
In the meantime, if you like Aronofsky going pulpy and mean with a cast full of ringers, it's worth catching in a theater while it's there.