A rocket-powered car, a wide river and a showman who would not take no for an answer: The Stunt Driver brings the true story of Montreal daredevil Ken Carter to the screen, with Jay Baruchel, Ed Helms and Ben Foster topping the credits under director Michael Dowse.
What is The Stunt Driver about?
Montreal, the middle of the 1970s. Ken Carter has spent three decades rolling, flipping and surviving cars in front of paying crowds, and he has decided how the act should finish: a single launch that sends a rocket car clean over the Saint Lawrence River. A stunt that size needs money, engineering and an audience, so Carter signs on a high-powered sports manager, recruits the best rocket-car designers he can find and lets a National Film Board of Canada crew point their cameras at every stage of the build-up. What follows is the long, loud road toward launch day, as the man billed as the Mad Canadian chases one last jump, one last payday and the fame he has always believed was waiting for him.
About the cast
Jay Baruchel, Ed Helms and Ben Foster sit at the top of the cast list, joined by Laurence Leboeuf, Joe Cobden, Marc Beaupré, Dan Bakkedahl and Noah Labranche. The ensemble mixes comedy and drama faces, which suits a story that swings between the absurd and the genuinely dangerous. Michael Dowse directs.
Context & significance
The Stunt Driver is a 2026 Canada and United Kingdom co-production running 93 minutes. Its subject, Ken Carter, was a real stunt driver from Montreal whose attempt to jump the Saint Lawrence River became one of the stranger episodes of Canadian popular culture, and the presence of a National Film Board crew during the real build-up means the event was documented as it happened. Dowse's film approaches that material as a feature rather than a documentary, dramatising the ambition, the salesmanship and the engineering gamble behind the jump.
Watching The Stunt Driver on Ktime
The Stunt Driver streams on K-Time with both a Persian dub and Persian subtitles, so viewers can choose the version that suits them. Reading this page is free; watching the film requires a K-Time account login. The whole experience, from browsing to playback, runs in a Farsi interface built for the Iranian diaspora.