The Straight Story

7.7

United States Of America

Drama

112 min

1999

Richard Farnsworth Sissy Spacek Jane Galloway Heitz Dan Flannery Jack Walsh Everett McGill Bill McCallum Barbara E. Robertson Sally Wingert Barbara Kingsley Wiley Harker Kevin Farley John Farley Harry Dean Stanton

A retired farmer and widower in his 70s, Alvin Straight learns one day that his distant brother Lyle has suffered a stroke and may not recover. 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. Then he hits on the idea of making the trip on his old lawnmower, thus beginning a picturesque and at times deeply spiritual odyssey.