Drive Back Home (2024)

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Synopsis

Dir: Michael Clowater. Drama/Comedy. In 1970, after his arrest for indecency in Toronto, a gay man (Alan Cumming) is bailed out of jail by his estranged brother (Charlie Creed-Miles) who drives him back to their childhood home in New Brunswick.

Content elements

• Frequent use of the sexual expletive in a non-sexual context; frequent use of scatological slang, profanity, cursing, vulgar expressions, and sexual slurs, some in an aggressive context
• Infrequent portrayals of gun, weapons, and hand-to-hand violence, some in a domestic context - some blood and detail
• Infrequent portrayals of sexual activity - no nudity, some detail
• Infrequent buttock nudity in a non-sexual context
• Infrequent portrayals of alcohol and tobacco use in a recreational context

Thematic elements

• Family dynamics
• Identity and discrimination
• Coping with trauma

Classification rationale

Rated 14A for coarse language and violence

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