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DVD Details
- Rated: G
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 51 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: November 7, 2000
- Originally Released: 1999
- Label: Walt Disney Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Richard Farnsworth & Sissy Spacek | |
Performer: | Everett McGill, Harry Dean Stanton, Jane Heitz, Jennifer Edwards-Hughes, Barbara E. Robertson, John Farley & John Lordan | |
Directed by | David Lynch | |
Edited by | Mary Sweeney | |
Screenwriting by | Mary Sweeney & John Roach | |
Composition by | Angelo Badalamenti | |
Produced by | Alain Sarde, Mary Sweeney & Neal Edelstein | |
Director of Photography: | Freddie Francis |
Entertainment Reviews:
...Farnsworth is exactly right as a stubborn old-timer....His dignified yet irascible presence is characterized by complete and effortless integrity...
Los Angeles Times
...Like Hemingway's dialogue, the screenplay by John Roach and Mary Sweeney finds poetry and truth in the exact choice of the right everyday words....[Farnsworth] speaks the lines with perfect repose and conviction...
Chicago Sun-Times
Lynch has slowed the world down and gotten back in touch with it.
Slate
Rating: 3.5/4 --
Lynch paces the film beautifully.
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ReelViews
...Lynch finds a way to get visual mileage out of virtually every scene....The filmmaker's instincts have never been sharper...
USA Today
Lynch has made a small epic that echoes and enlarges in memory.
The New Republic
The Straight Story could easily slide into melancholy and sentimentality without Lynch's sensibility, an odd mix of up-by-your bootstraps American conservatism and on-the-road romanticism.
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Product Description:
David Lynch's first foray into the land of Disney and G-ratings is a surprisingly gentle, hopeful, and irony-free crowd pleaser. The film tells the true story of Alvin Straight (Richard Farnsworth), a 73-year-old man who journeys from Laurens, Iowa, to Mt. Zion, Wisconsin, on a John Deere lawn mower in order to visit his dying older brother, Lyle (Harry Dean Stanton). The estranged brothers haven't spoken in years because of their stubborn pride, but Lyle's recent stroke convinces Alvin that now is the time to make amends. Along the way he meets a host of interesting characters--including a pregnant runaway teenager, a sad World War II veteran, and a sympathetic priest--affecting them deeply with his unflinching spirit and belief in the power of familial love. As Straight, Farnsworth slips into the role he was born to play with an effortless grace. Sissy Spacek gives a heartbreaking turn as his afflicted daughter, Rose, who looks after her father and mourns for her children, who were cruelly taken away from her after a freak fire threatened their well-being. Angelo Badalamenti's acoustic, string-heavy score, coupled with 81-year-old Freddie Francis's golden cinematography, adds an even deeper grace to Lynch's touching family drama.
Description by Buena Vista Home Entertainment.:
The Straight Story
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 director David Lynch (WILD AT HEART, MULHOLLAND DRIVE), this gentle, inspiring film celebrates the human spirit. 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 (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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