Drive Back Home

Set in the winter of 1970 in Canada, a grumpy small-town plumber is forced to drive 1,000 miles to bail out his estranged and quirky gay brother (Alan Cumming). DRIVE BACK HOME chips away at the surface of typical brotherly friction to reveal a much deeper divide from their past. When Perley gets arrested for having sex with another man in a public park, his mother insists Weldon make the long trek to bring him back to their rural town. The drive home becomes a whirlwind of petty arguments about class and tall tales, about big-city pretension versus the small-town simple life, about responsibility and neglect. This beautifully shot, nuanced depiction of rural Canada in the ’70s was inspired by true events in the lives of the director’s grandfather and great-uncle.