Drive Back Home – Monday Cinema – 4 pm only

Trail & District Arts Council’s MONDAY CINEMA Drive Back Home at The Royal Theatre, 1597 Bay Avenue, Trail on Monday, February 3 at 4 pm only.

In the winter of 1970, a cantankerous, conservative plumber from a small Canadian village, travels to Toronto to get his brother out of jail after he is arrested for having sex with another man in a public park.

When their strong-willed mother insists that the two brothers must drive the 1000-mile trip back home to New Brunswick together they discover each other and themselves along the way.

Inspired by a true story and with terrific performances including Alan Cummings, Drive Back Home is the road trip we would love to be a part of with equal amount of laughter and tears.

“The lively comic interplay between Alan Cumming and Charlie Creed-Miles as brothers forced together on a road trip is good fun…” – Liam Lacey, Original Cin

Dir: Michael Clowater / Country: Canada / Language: English, French / Duration: 1 hr 40 mins / Featuring: Alan Cumming, Charlie Creed-Miles, Cameron Nicoll / Genre: Comedy, Drama / Rating: 14A SOME SUBTITLES

The Monday Cinema series is part of the Toronto International Film Festival Film Circuit and is presented by Trail and District Arts Council at The Royal Theatre, 1597 Bay Avenue, Trail.

Tickets $13 at tickets.trail-arts.com or call the Bailey Theatre Box Office at 250-368-9669 Monday to Friday from 12-4 pm. Advance ticket holders’ names will appear on the door attendance list; no need to pick up any physical ticket before hand. If tickets are available, they will go on sale at the venue 30 minutes before the screening for cash only. Doors will open 30 minutes prior to show time.

Films in the Monday Cinema series:

Jan. 13: Goodrich – 4pm and 7pm – Andy Goodrich’s life is upended when his wife enters a rehab program, leaving him on his own with their young kids. So, Goodrich leans on Grace, his daughter from his first marriage, for help.

Jan. 20: In the Summers – 4pm only -Two sisters find their relationships to their loving but volatile father changing over the course of yearly summer visits to his New Mexico home.

Jan. 27: All Stirred Up! (Tous Toqués) – 4pm and 7pm – A French chef looking for fame, tries to help a young girl win a culinary competition amidst the hostility of an entire village who dislike her mother, the local customs officer.

Feb. 3: Drive Back Home – 4pm only – In the winter of 1970, after being caught for public indecency in a local Toronto park a man is bailed out by his cantankerous, conservative brother and must drive the 1000-mile trip back home to New Brunswick with him. Inspired by a true story.

Feb. 10: Small Things Like These – 4pm only – A devoted father discovers disturbing secrets kept by a local convent, forcing him to confront the complicit silence of a small Irish town controlled by the Catholic Church.

No film Feb. 17 for Family Day