From director David Lynch comes a lyrical portrait of one man's real journey across America's Heartland. Filmed along the 260-mile route that the actual Alvin Straight traversed in 1994 from Laurens, Iowa to Mt. Zion, Wisconsin, "the Straight story" chronicles Alvin's patient odyssey and those he meets along the way. When not rolling along at five miles an hour aboard his '66 John Deere, Alvin encounters a number of strangers, from a teenage runaway to a fellow World War II veteran. By sharing his life's earned wisdom with simple stories, Alvin has a profound impact on these characters that color his pilgrimage.
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- The Straight Story
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- Cast
- Sissy Spacek, Jane Heitz, Joseph Carpenter, Donald Wiegert, Richard Farnsworth, Tracey Maloney, Dan Flannery, Jennifer Edwards-Hughes, Ed Grennan, Jack Walsh
- Director
- David Lynch
- Producer
- Pierre Edelman, Michael Polaire, Mary Sweeney, Neal Edelstein
- Writer
- John Roach, Mary Sweeney
- Duration
- 01:51:00
- Release
- Friday December 3 1999
- Genres
- Drama, Family, Action/Adventure
- Distributor
- FilmFour Ltd
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