Drive Back Home

Director: Michael Clowater, 100 minutes, Canada

A tragi-comedy about brotherhood, forgiveness, and overcoming deep divides. Set in the winter of 1970, stoic plumber Weldon (Charlie Creed-Miles) is sent by his mother to retrieve his estranged, openly gay brother Perley (Alan Cumming) from a Toronto jail, where he’s been arrested for “public indecency.” Reluctantly, Weldon sets out in a borrowed pickup, but the 1,000-mile journey becomes more than a simple drive home. Along snowy roads and through charged silences, the brothers confront buried wounds, small-town prejudices, and each other.