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Release Date: 1999

Cast: Jack Walsh, Sally Wingert, Jennifer Edwards-Hughes, Barbara Kingsley, Donald Wiegert, Matt Guidry, Anastasia Webb, James Cada, Jane Galloway Heitz, Richard Farnsworth, Harry Dean Stanton, Kevin Farley ...MORE

Cast: Jack Walsh, Sally Wingert, Jennifer Edwards-Hughes, Barbara Kingsley, Donald Wiegert, Matt Guidry, Anastasia Webb, James Cada, Jane Galloway Heitz, Richard Farnsworth, Harry Dean Stanton, Kevin Farley, Jim Haun, Wiley Harker, Everett McGill, Bill McCallum, Sissy Spacek, Ed Grennan, Joseph A. Carpenter, Dan Flannery ...LESS

Categories: Movies, Adventure, Biography, Drama Film, Road Movie, Existentialism, Americana

The Straight Story is a 1999 film directed by David Lynch. The film was edited and produced by Mary Sweeney, Lynch's longtime partner and co-worker. She co-wrote the script with John E. Roach. The Straight Story is based on the true story of Alvin Straight's journey across Iowa and Wisconsin on a lawnmower. Alvin, (played by Richard Farnsworth) is an elderly World War II veteran who lives with his daughter Rose (Sissy Spacek), a kind woman with a mental disability. When he hears that his estranged brother Lyle (Harry Dean Stanton) has suffered a stroke, Alvin makes up his mind to go visit... MORE

The Straight Story is a 1999 film directed by David Lynch. The film was edited and produced by Mary Sweeney, Lynch's longtime partner and co-worker. She co-wrote the script with John E. Roach. The Straight Story is based on the true story of Alvin Straight's journey across Iowa and Wisconsin on a lawnmower. Alvin, (played by Richard Farnsworth) is an elderly World War II veteran who lives with his daughter Rose (Sissy Spacek), a kind woman with a mental disability. When he hears that his estranged brother Lyle (Harry Dean Stanton) has suffered a stroke, Alvin makes up his mind to go visit him and hopefully make amends before he dies. But because Alvin's legs and eyes are too impaired for him to receive a driving license, he hitches a trailer to his recently purchased thirty year-old John Deere 110 Lawn tractor and sets off on the 240-mile journey from Laurens, Iowa to Mount Zion, Wisconsin. The film follows the story of Alvin's six-week journey across rural America, the people he meets, his impact on their lives, and theirs on his. It has been called a modern odyssey of a man dealing with his own mortality and mistakes and the lasting bonds of family. Alvin Straight has not shown LESS