The Straight Story
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In Theaters: October 15, 1999
G | 1h 51m | Action, Adventure, Drama
This film chronicles a 1994 long-distance road trip made by 73-year-old Alvin Straight from Laurens, Iowa, to Mt. Zion, Wisconsin. Nothing unusual about that until you get to the punch line ... he traveled the whole route sitting astride a riding lawn mower. Alvin undertook his strange, slow and loud journey to mend his relationship with his ailing and estranged, 75-year-old brother, Lisle.
Perhaps even stranger than Alvin's journey is the fact that this film is directed by the man who turned weird and bizarre behavior into must-see TV with his Twin Peaks series as well as directing the films Blue Velvet and Wild at Heart. Sure, Alvin's behavior is a little weird, but there's not going to be the Lynchian trademarks we've come to expect -- things like severed ears, kinky sex and a log with a message.
(Brings to mind the old joke: Did you hear about the farmer whose wife left him? -- beat -- Neither did he until he got his John Deere letter.)
Perhaps even stranger than Alvin's journey is the fact that this film is directed by the man who turned weird and bizarre behavior into must-see TV with his Twin Peaks series as well as directing the films Blue Velvet and Wild at Heart. Sure, Alvin's behavior is a little weird, but there's not going to be the Lynchian trademarks we've come to expect -- things like severed ears, kinky sex and a log with a message.
(Brings to mind the old joke: Did you hear about the farmer whose wife left him? -- beat -- Neither did he until he got his John Deere letter.)
| Director: | David Lynch |
| Producer(s): | Paresh Rawal, Sanjay Dutt |
| Cast: | Sissy Spacek, Richard Farnsworth, Harry Dean Stanton, Jennifer Edwards, Barbara Ann Grimes, Jack Walsh, Jennifer Edwards-Hughes, John Lordan |
| Writer(s): | Mary Sweeney, John Roach |
| Official Site: | disney.go.com/disneypictures/straightstory/index.html |
