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Release Date: 1999

Cast: James Cada, Sissy Spacek, Barbara Kingsley, Bill McCallum, Sally Wingert, Joseph A. Carpenter, Jane Galloway Heitz, Anastasia Webb, Harry Dean Stanton, Everett McGill, Dan Flannery, Ed Grennan ...MORE

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

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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 (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... 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 (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. Alvin Straight has not shown up to his regular bar meeting with his friends. He is eventually found lying on his floor at home, although he insists that he "just needs a bit of help getting up". His daughter Rose takes her reluctant father to see a doctor, who sternly admonishes Alvin to give up alcohol LESS