Deaner '89

Hard-luck metalhead Dean Murdoch (Paul Spence) has finally made it, and now everyone wants to know the story behind his unlikely rise to fame. With Dean as narrator, we're taken back to the 80s; when being a hockey jock was a badge of honour, Jazzercise was a national movement, seatbelts were optional, and teachers were as drunk as their students. Teenage Dean is a small-town hockey star whose life takes a turn for the weird when a satanic steamer trunk full of his estranged father's personal effects shows up. As the call to heed the dark forces of heavy metal gets louder, Dean angers a biker gang, steals a bus, and discovers that drugs and slapshots are a dangerous mix. The high-tempo comedy packs in the laughs, while using comedy to spark conversations about identity and the impact of the Canadian government's decades-old Indigenous adoption policies that continue to impact us all today.