Drive Back Home

Did you try the Navy? Priceless.

Alan Cumming is, has and always will be - indefatigably and undeniably - a quirky chap - even more so now, considering his reign of The Traitors US. For those lucky enough to have seen him in the [intimate] Donmar's Cabaret will know - he can throw light and shade with just one look. When he chooses his roles wisely, he soars!

Drive Back Home is a combination of wintery light and dark, damning shade...where a dog upstages everyone - without exception. You have to see it to believe it...truly, hysterical. Where the contrasts are savage and camp and presided over by a great big cloud of 'faggoty' denial.

Two brothers, from different worlds...on the road, what could possibly go wrong? Well, just about everything...all of their own making! And all because...Alan Cumming can't keep it in his trousers!

Levity follows solemnity and vice versa...the switch between moods is seamless, Did you try the Navy? is just one example of how Michael Clowater's writing and direction tightly control the mood swings...and, there are many swings - impressive to say the least...considering this is his debut feature.

Praise to Charlie Creed-Miles' worldly-vulnerable straight-man, a concrete foil against the shenanigans and drama...the escalation is sudden, harrowing and unforgettable.

But...it's Alan who has the last laugh...with one of the most inappropriate and brutal lines ever to be uttered on screen. He even upstages the dog...with his final mood swing.

Glorious...and, harrowing.

Trailer...