THE STRAIGHT STORY
RATING: G
DURATION: 1:52
DIRECTOR: David Lynch
STARRING: Richard Farnsworth, Sissy Spacek, Jane Galloway Heitz
Screening Times
Sun 13 Oct - 6:30pm
Tue 22 Oct - 7:30pm
(ENCORE)
25th Anniversary restoration.
A portrait of one man's real journey across America's Heartland.
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.
Filmed along the 260-mile route that the actual Alvin Straight traversed in 1994 from Laurens, Iowa to Mt. Zion, Wisconsin, "the Straight story" chronicles Alvin's patient odyssey and those he meets along the way. When not rolling along at five miles an hour aboard his '66 John Deere, Alvin encounters a number of strangers, from a teenage runaway to a fellow World War II veteran. By sharing his life's earned wisdom with simple stories, Alvin has a profound impact on these characters that colour his pilgrimage.
Restored in 4K in 2023 by courtesy of StudioCanal at Fotokem and L’Immagine Ritrovata laboratories, from the original negative. Soundtrack remastered by Ronald Eng and David Lynch. Restoration supervised by David Lynch.
“It’s still an outlier in Lynch’s wild-at-heart filmography, and also one of his best movies.” – Adam Nayman, The Ringer