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Golden Globe Best Performance By an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama 2000 · Nominated
Academy Award Actor in a Leading Role 2000 · Nominated
Golden Globe Best Original Score - Motion Picture 2000 · Nominated
Golden Globe Best Performance By an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama 2000 · Nominated
Academy Award Actor in a Leading Role 2000 · Nominated
Golden Globe Best Original Score - Motion Picture 2000 · Nominated
A retired farmer and widower in his 70s, Alvin Straight (Richard Farnsworth) learns one day that his distant brother Lyle (Harry Dean Stanton) 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...