The Straight Story (1999)
Rating: 7.7/10
Duration: 112 min
Year: 1999
Genres: Drama
Director(s): David Lynch
Description:
A retired farmer and widower in his 70s, Alvin Straight learns one day that his distant brother Lyle has suffered a stroke and may not recover. 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. Then he hits on the idea of making the trip on his old lawnmower, thus beginning a picturesque and at times deeply spiritual odyssey.
Cast
- Sissy Spacek as Rose
- Richard Farnsworth as Alvin
- Jack Walsh as Apple
- Jane Galloway Heitz as Dorothy
- Joseph A. Carpenter as Bud
- Donald Wiegert as Sig
- Tracey Maloney as Nurse
- Dan Flannery as Doctor Gibbons
- Jennifer Edwards as Brenda
- Ed Grennan as Pete
- Gil Pearson as Bus Driver
- Barbara June Patterson as Woman on Bus
- Everett McGill as Tom the John Deere Dealer
- Anastasia Webb as Crystal
- Matt Guidry as Steve
