The Straight Story

David Lynch directs this drama which tells the tale of Alvin Straight (Richard Farnsworth), a 73-year-old Midwesterner who sets out on an unusual personal odyssey. Alvin lives with his intellectually disabled daughter Rose (Sissy Spacek), and is struggling with his failing health. When he hears that his estranged brother Lyle (Harry Dean Stanton) has suffered a stroke, he realises that now is the time to heal the rift between them. However, lacking a car of his own, Alvin opts to make the three hundred-mile journey from Iowa to Wisconsin on his lawnmower.

Actor: Jack Walsh
Actor: Everett McGill
Director: David Lynch
Music: Angelo Badalamenti
Actor: Sissy Spacek
Producer: Mary Sweeney
Writer: Mary Sweeney
Cinematographer: Freddie Francis
Producer: Neal Edelstein
Writer: John Roach
Actor: John Farley
Actor: Kevin Farley
Actor: Jane Galloway Heitz
Actor: Donald Wiergert
Actor: Tracey Maloney
Actor: Joseph A. Carpenter
Actor: Gil Pearson
Actor: Richard Farnsworth
Actor: Harry Dean Stanton