The Straight Story
A true story that proves a little determination goes a very, very long way.
19991h 52m
- Drama
TMDB rating 7.7TMDB1,898 votes
Overview
Retired farmer and widower Alvin Straight learns one day that his estranged brother Lyle has suffered a severe stroke. Alvin is determined to make things right with Lyle while he still can, but his brother lives in Wisconsin, while Alvin is stuck in Iowa with no car and no driver's license. He then has the idea of making the trip on his old lawnmower, thus beginning a picturesque and at times deeply spiritual odyssey.
- Directed by
- David Lynch
- Written by
- John Roach, Mary Sweeney
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Cast
Richard Farnsworth
Alvin
Sissy Spacek
Rose
Jane Galloway Heitz
Dorothy
Joseph A. Carpenter
Bud
Donald Wiegert
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Facts
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- English
- Budget
- $10M
- Revenue
- $6.4M
- Production companies
- Les Films Alain Sarde, Picture Factory, Le Studio Canal+, Film4 Productions
