Overview - The Straight Story

Date of release

Genres

  • Drama

Runtime: 112 minutes

Homepage: The Straight Story

Budget

$10,000,000.00

Revenue

$6,418,028.00

Spoken Languages

  • English

Production companies

  • Name: Les Films Alain Sarde

    Production country France

  • Name: The Picture Factory

    Production country United States of America

  • Name: Le Studio Canal+

    Production country France

  • Name: Film4 Productions

    Production country United Kingdom

Overview

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.

Cast

  • Name: Richard Farnsworth

    Character: Alvin

    Popularity: 8.48

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  • Name: Sissy Spacek

    Character: Rose

    Popularity: 13.163

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  • Name: Jane Galloway Heitz

    Character: Dorothy

    Popularity: 3.291

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  • Name: Joseph A. Carpenter

    Character: Bud

    Popularity: 0.069

  • Name: Donald Wiegert

    Character: Sig

    Popularity: 0.952

  • Name: Tracey Maloney

    Character: Nurse

    Popularity: 0.804

  • Name: Dan Flannery

    Character: Doctor Gibbons

    Popularity: 0.806

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  • Name: Jennifer Edwards

    Character: Brenda

    Popularity: 0.15