Entertaining, heart-wrenching, and unexpectedly funny, Drive Back Home is a tragi-comedy about brotherhood, forgiveness, and finding connection across deep divides. It’s the winter of 1970 in small-town New Brunswick when Weldon (Charlie Creed-Miles) — a stoic, by-the-book plumber — is ordered by his mother to retrieve his estranged, openly gay brother Perley (a magnetic Alan Cumming) from a Toronto jail, where he’s been arrested for “public indecency.”

Reluctantly, Weldon sets off in a borrowed pickup truck, only to find that bringing Perley home means more than just the long drive. As the two brothers embark on the 1,000-mile journey, they navigate snowy backroads, awkward silences, and unexpected confrontations — forced to confront long-buried family wounds, small-town prejudices, and each other.

Inspired by director Michael Clowater’s own family history, Drive Back Home balances humor and heart with a pitch-perfect sense of time and place. The result is a road movie that’s both hilarious and heartfelt — a portrait of queer resilience, small-town grit, and the complicated love between brothers.