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All-Time Sales Rank: 1446
| Overall Rating:  3.88 out of 5, including 2 reviews
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"The Sweetest And Most Compassionate Movie Lynch Has Ever Made." -Chicago Tribune
Based on the true story that captured the hearts of America, The Straight Story is one of those rare films offering powerful, uplifting entertainment for audiences of all ages. Directed by acclaimed, two-time Academy Award nominee David Lynch (Wild At Heart, Twin Peaks), this gentle, inspiring film celebrates the human spirit.
Academy Award nominee Richard Farnsworth (Misery, The Natural) stars as Alvin Straight -- a no-nonsense man who has never been one to lean on others. Now at an age when his eyesight denies him the ability to drive, and walking is accomplished only with the help of two canes, Alvin lives a quiet life with his daughter Rose (Academy Award winner Sissy Spacek). But when the call comes that Alvin's estranged brother, Lyle (Harry Dean Stanton, The Green Mile), has suffered a debilitating stroke, Alvin embarks on a dangerous and emotional journey to make amends. With little money, but plenty of patience and tenacity, he climbs aboard his 1966 John Deere lawnmower and plots the 260-mile course from his small Iowa town to Lyle's home in Wisconsin.
Filmed along the actual route that the real Alvin Straight traveled in 1994, The Straight Story is a heartwarming and poignant drama chronicling Alvin's six-week odyssey and the many lives he touches along the way.
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| Studio: Disney / Buena Vista
Production Year: 1999
Release Date: 11/7/2000
Length: 112 mins
Rating: G
| Packaging: Keep Case
Number of Discs: 1
Disc: SS-SL
Item Code: 20452
UPC Code: 717951010117
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Overall Rating: 3.88 out of 5, including 2 reviews
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Empire Review
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Straight To The Heart - 3.75 out of 5 (11/4/2000)
David Lynch's The Straight Story tells the true tale of Alvin Straight, who traveled 260 miles from his home in Iowa on a lawnmower to see his brother in Wisconsin. It seems both strange and fitting that Lynch would helm such a project...strange, because Lynch is a director whom has always looked at the darker corners of life in such films as Blue Velvet, Lost Highway, and television's Twin Peaks; and fitting because perhaps no one but Lynch has both the vision and a
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Heartwarming but eviscerated - 4 out of 5 (12/6/2002)
Lynch focuses on humanity more often than in his usual work though the Lynchian touches yet exist. The acting by Richard Farnsworth and company make this middle-American search for the past well worth watching. Alvin is on a journey to reconnect with his brother Lyle and the people he meets and reflects and informs create many memorable scenes, philosophical gems. Disney bought the rights to this film and if I'm not wrong, edited the final DVD product. Their "feelgood" approach (always the famil
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