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     Richard Farnsworth

     Alvin Straight
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     Jane Galloway Heitz

     Dorothy, Straight's Next-Door Neighbor
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     Joseph A. Carpenter

     Bud
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     Everett McGill

     Tom the John Deere Dealer
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     Donald Wiegert

     Sig
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     Jennifer Edwards-Hughes

     Brenda, the Grocery Clerk

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2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › The_Straight_StoryThe Straight Story - Wikipedia

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   The Straight Story. The Straight Story is a 1999 biographical road drama film directed by David Lynch. It was edited and produced by Mary Sweeney, Lynch's longtime partner and collaborator, who also co-wrote the script with John E. Roach. It is based on the true story of Alvin Straight 's 1994 journey across Iowa and Wisconsin on a lawn mower.

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     Remembering David Lynch’s ‘The Straight Story’

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4. www.imdb.com › title › tt0166896The Straight Story (1999) - IMDb

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   Nov 3, 1999 · The Straight Story: Directed by David Lynch. With Sissy Spacek, Jane Galloway Heitz, Joseph A. Carpenter, Donald Wiegert. An old man makes a long journey by lawnmower to mend his relationship with an ill brother.

   • 8/10 (98K)
   • Genre: Biography, Drama

   • Director: David Lynch
   • Release Date: 1999-11-03

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     David Lynch’s Secret New Project Is an Album and Music Video with ‘Twin Peaks: The Return’ Star Chrystabell

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6. www.rogerebert.com › features › the-straight-storyDavid Lynch’s The Straight Story & Playing Catch-Up

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   Mar 4, 2024 · In a scene with such unfathomable empathy for its characters—for the elderly so often forgotten and dismissed in today’s world—Lynch allows patience. The two men, both veterans, trade stories about their days in World War II. Verlyn openly cries at the bar, while Alvin holds a glass of milk, having quit drinking.

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8. www.justwatch.com › us › movieThe Straight Story streaming: where to watch online? - JustWatch

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   The Straight Story is 2386 on the JustWatch Daily Streaming Charts today. The movie has moved up the charts by 856 places since yesterday. In the United States, it is currently more popular than Zero Days but less popular than The Ring.

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   • Director: David Lynch

   • Content Rating: G
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9. www.rogerebert.com › features › getting-to-the-heartGetting to the Heart of America in David Lynch's The Straight ...

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   Feb 18, 2021 · Released in 1999, the film lands right between “ Lost Highway ” and “ Mulholland Drive ,” both R-rated neo-noirs set in L.A. that bear Lynch’s trademark surrealism. “The Straight Story” is a G-rated Disney release based on a true story about a man riding his lawnmower from Iowa to Wisconsin to visit his sick brother.

10. www.rogerebert.com › reviews › the-straight-story-1999The Straight Story movie review (1999) | Roger Ebert

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    Oct 15, 1999 · The movie isn't just about the old Alvin Straight's odyssey through the sleepy towns and rural districts of the Midwest, but about the people he finds to listen and care for him. You'd think it was a fantasy, this kindness of strangers, if the movie weren't based on a true story. Straight ( Richard Farnsworth) is a 73-year-old man from in ...

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    Did David Lynch say 'the Straight Story'?

    • “I guess you’d have to say that this is different from the things I’ve been doing lately,” said David Lynch during a press conference at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival for his film The Straight Story. This comment was, on one level, a wry bit of understatement. porno screening gets soundtracked by Rammstein

    Remembering David Lynch’s ‘The Straight Story’

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    What is Lynch's 'the Straight Story' based on?

    • In Lynch projects like “ Blue Velvet ,” “ Wild at Heart ,” “Twin Peaks” or “Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me,” the director’s close witness and interest in inner struggle reveals deep brokenness, usually in some form of trauma or evil (either human or supernatural). In a way, this also permeates “The Straight Story.”

    Getting to the Heart of America in David Lynch's The Straight Story

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    Is 'the Straight Story' based on a true story?

    • Told linearly and shot chronologically in the order of the real Alvin Straight’s actual travel route, “The Straight Story” isn’t so far removed from the playfulness of other Lynch works—the smash cut of Alvin’s face when his brakes don’t work, the woman in hysterics over her contribution to an interstate graveyard of deer.

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12. www.theringer.com › movies › 2019/5/23Remembering David Lynch’s ‘The Straight Story’ - The Ringer

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    May 23, 2019 · Remembering David Lynch’s ‘The Straight Story’. Twenty years ago, this G-rated, Disney-released, plaintive, and naturalistic tale of an aging man’s tractor journey across the heartland ...