The Straight Story

Overview

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

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  Richard Farnsworth

  Alvin

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  Sissy Spacek

  Rose

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  Jane Galloway Heitz

  Dorothy

• Joseph A. Carpenter

  Bud

• Donald Wiegert

  Sig

• Tracey Maloney

  Nurse

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  Dan Flannery

  Doctor Gibbons

• Jennifer Edwards

  Brenda

• Ed Grennan

  Pete

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  Jack Walsh

  Apple

• Gil Pearson

  Bus Driver

• Barbara June Patterson

  Woman on Bus

• ★ 8.1

  Paris, Texas

  1984

• ★ 7.8

  Into the Wild

  2007

• ★ 7.5

  The Shack

  2017

• ★ 6.9

  The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet

  2013

• ★ 7.3

  Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken

  1991

• ★ 6.6

  Where the Red Fern Grows

  2003

• ★ 7.0

  A River Runs Through It

  1992

• ★ 6.4

  Head Full of Honey

  2018

• ★ 7.8

  Dances with Wolves

  1990

• ★ 6.7

  Jacob

  1994

• ★ 8.3

  Joseph

  1995

• ★ 7.1

  Abraham

  1993

• ★ 6.8

  An Unfinished Life

  2005

• ★ 6.8

  I Am David

  2003

• ★ 6.7

  The Tree of Life

  2011

• ★ 7.7

  The World's Fastest Indian

  2005

• ★ 6.0

  Kings of the Sun

  1963

• ★ 6.3

  Cassandra's Dream

  2007