Drive Back Home

Sep 19, 2024

1h 43m

★ 6.9

Overview

A conservative plumber from a small east coast village who travels to Toronto in order to get his brother out of jail after he is arrested for having sex with another man in a public park. At the insistence of their strong willed mother, the two brothers must drive the 1000 mile trip back home to New Brunswick, together - discovering each other and themselves along the way.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Woods Entertainment

Game Theory Films

Téléfilm Canada

Northern Ontario Heritage Fund

Vigilante Productions

Radke Films

Ontario Creates

Mason Films

Drive Back Home Trailers

Cast

Perley

Alan Cumming

Weldon

Charlie Creed-Miles

Adelaide

Clare Coulter

Martha

Sprague Grayden

Moses

Gray Powell

Ellis

Judah Davidson

Etienne Durocher

Guy Sprung

Michel

Alexandre Bourgeois

Jerome

Anthony Jones Nestoras

Perley Sr.

Gord Rand

Policeman

Brian Bisson

Desk Sergeant

Thomas Mitchell

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