Director: Sam McGlynn
Time travel and hair metal collide when a middle-aged party animal gets thrown back to his glory days of 1989 in this Canadian action-comedy.
What is Deaner 89 about?
Dean Murdoch peaked in college, and he has never quite gotten over it. Stuck in an adult life that feels smaller than the legend in his own head, Dean finds himself hurled back to 1989, right into the middle of the campus antics that made him a local myth in the first place. Suddenly young again and armed with the knowledge of everything that went wrong the first time around, Dean throws himself back into the parties, rivalries, and reckless stunts of his glory days, determined to do it all bigger and louder than before. But rewriting the past turns out to be messier than reliving it, as Dean's second shot at 1989 collides with consequences he never saw coming the first time. Paul Spence leads the chaos as the eternally overconfident Dean, backed by a scene-stealing supporting cast that includes Will Sasso, Mary Walsh, and Kids in the Hall veteran Kevin McDonald. The film leans hard into practical action and broad, unapologetic comedy, treating nostalgia less as sentiment than as fuel for one very loud joyride.
Cast & crew
Paul Spence brings big, committed energy to Dean, playing both the character's delusions of past glory and his genuine panic at rewriting history for maximum comic effect. Will Sasso and Kevin McDonald add sharp comedic support, while Mary Walsh grounds the film's louder stretches with well-timed deadpan.
Context & significance
Director Sam McGlynn leans on practical stunts and a soundtrack steeped in late-1980s rock to sell the time-travel premise's throwback energy rather than relying on visual-effects spectacle. The film sits in a lineage of comedies that use a trip to the past as an excuse to needle both eras it straddles, poking fun at 1989 excess and present-day middle age in equal measure.
Where & how to watch
Deaner '89 streams on K-Time with Farsi dubbing and Farsi subtitles, delivered through a Persian-language interface designed for diaspora audiences. This page is free to browse; watching the film requires logging into a K-Time account.