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The Straight Story

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

Categories: Movies, Road movie, Existentialism, Biography, Americana, Adventure

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

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  • Alvin Straight is a very old man with a quiet life in a small country town. When his brother gets seriously sick, he decides to put away their differences and visit him after many, many years. So, alone, he begins a long journey through hundreds of miles,...
  • Alvin Straight is a very old man with a quiet life in a small country town. When his brother gets seriously sick, he decides to put away their differences and visit him after many, many years. So, alone, he begins a long journey through hundreds of miles,...
  • David Lynchs 1999 film based on the true story of seventy-three year old Alvin Straight who travelled across America on a 1966 John Deere lawnmower to visit his ailing brother in 1994.The film represents a break from Lynchs usual non-linear approach to st...
  • Alvin Straight is a very old man with a quiet life in a small country town. When his brother gets seriously sick, he decides to put away their differences and visit him after many, many years. So, alone, he begins a long journey through hundreds of miles,...
  • David Lynchs 1999 film based on the true story of seventy-three year old Alvin Straight who travelled across America on a 1966 John Deere lawnmower to visit his ailing brother in 1994.The film represents a break from Lynchs usual non-linear approach to st...
  • Alvin Straight is a very old man with a quiet life in a small country town. When his brother gets seriously sick, he decides to put away their differences and visit him after many, many years. So, alone, he begins a long journey through hundreds of miles,...
  • Alvin Straight is a very old man with a quiet life in a small country town. When his brother gets seriously sick, he decides to put away their differences and visit him after many, many years. So, alone, he begins a long journey through hundreds of miles,...
  • David Lynchs 1999 film based on the true story of seventy-three year old Alvin Straight who travelled across America on a 1966 John Deere lawnmower to visit his ailing brother in 1994.The film represents a break from Lynchs usual non-linear approach to st...
  • David Lynch discusses his film, THE STRAIGHT STORY. (2001) CONNECT WITH AFI: facebook.com twitter.com AFI.com AFI FACEBOOK APP: apps.facebook.com

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