Strange Creatures is a delightful road trip dramedy about brothers driving through country Australia in a hearse

Squint a little, and Strange Creatures is Australia's answer to Little Miss Sunshine. Fast facts about Strange Creatures What: Indie road trip dramedy following two estranged brothers as they travel through regional Australia to scatter their mum's ashes. Inspired loosely by writer and first-time feature director Henry Boffin's tense relationship with a brother he rarely speaks to, Strange Creatures follows the Taylors, two 30-something brothers driving from Melbourne to their childhood farm in Narrabri, NSW to scatter their mother's ashes. Maybe that's because Nate, clearly the Boffin surrogate, isn't the protagonist: Instead, Strange Creatures belongs to Ged. It's not signposted via a title credit, but the film's name comes from Jane Austen's Mansfield Park, where a character remarks: "What strange creatures brothers are!".