The Straight Story (1999)
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.
Cast
Richard Farnsworth
Alvin
Sissy Spacek
Rose
Jane Galloway Heitz
Dorothy
Dan Flannery
Doctor Gibbons
Jack Walsh
Apple
Everett McGill
Tom the John Deere Dealer
Bill McCallum
Rat
Barbara E. Robertson
Deer Woman
James Cada
Danny Riordan
Sally Wingert
Darla Riordan
Barbara Kingsley
Janet JohnsonRecommendations
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