The Straight Story
Released
October 15, 1999
Runtime: 1h 52m
Retired farmer and widower Alvin Straight learns one day that his estranged brother Lyle has suffered a severe stroke. 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 license. He then has the idea of making the trip on his old lawnmower, thus beginning a picturesque and at times deeply spiritual odyssey.
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Cast & Crew
Richard Farnsworth
Alvin
Sissy Spacek
Rose
Jane Galloway Heitz
Dorothy
- JC
Joseph A. Carpenter
Bud
- DW
Donald Wiegert
Sig
- TM
Tracey Maloney
Nurse
Dan Flannery
Doctor Gibbons
- JE
Jennifer Edwards
Brenda
- EG
Ed Grennan
Pete
Jack Walsh
Apple
- GP
Gil Pearson
Bus Driver
- BP
Barbara June Patterson
Woman on Bus
Everett McGill
Tom the John Deere Dealer
- AW
Anastasia Webb
Crystal
- MG
Matt Guidry
Steve
Bill McCallum
Rat
Barbara E. Robertson
Deer Woman
James Cada
Danny Riordan
David Lynch
Director
- JR
John Roach
Writer
Mary Sweeney
Writer
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