A funeral pulls three estranged adult siblings and their aging mother back to the lake cottage they all swore they'd left behind for good.
What is Best Boy about?
After the death of the abusive, controlling father who once ruled their summers there, three now-grown children and their mother return to a long-shuttered family cottage to settle his affairs. Old wounds resurface almost immediately, and before long the siblings find themselves pulled into a strange, half-remembered competition — one their father staged three decades earlier, and which tore the family apart the first time around. What starts as an awkward homecoming curdles into something darker, as buried resentments, sibling rivalries, and their mother's own complicated grief collide under one roof. The film balances pitch-black comedy with real dread, using the isolated cottage setting to trap its characters with each other and with a past none of them ever actually processed.
About the cast
Caroline Dhavernas leads the returning family alongside Aaron Abrams, Marc Bendavid, and Dylan Smith as the adult siblings, with Lise Roy as their mother and Mario Dallaire rounding out the cottage's small orbit of characters. The ensemble carries the film's shifts between dark humor and tension, playing a family that clearly loves and resents each other in equal measure.
Context & significance
Directed by Jesse Noah Klein, this Canadian production leans into the tradition of the family-reunion thriller, using a single confined location and a script that folds comedy into unease rather than keeping them apart. Running a lean 91 minutes, it moves quickly from uncomfortable reunion to full-blown reckoning with the past.
Watching Best Boy on Ktime
The film streams on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, so it's easy to follow in Farsi from the opening scene. As with everything on K-Time, this page is free to browse — watching requires only a K-Time account login, with the platform's Farsi-first interface built for Persian-speaking audiences wherever they are.