Drive Back Home

9/23/2025

Road trip/buddy movies are one of my favorite film genres, primarily because of the myriad possibilities they afford for pairing up unlikely traveling companions journeying together under diverse, unexpected and often-outlandish conditions. And, when filmmakers figure out how to make the most out of these scenarios, their finished products are often entertaining, enlightening, and, above all, engaging. That’s very much the case with writer-director Michael Clowater’s debut feature, an insightful, sensitive, funny and touching story of two very different brothers on an unanticipated road trip through Eastern Canada. In this fact-based story set in 1970, Weldon (Charlie Creed-Miles), a cantankerous, blue collar plumber from small town New Brunswick, learns that his long-estranged gay brother