October 31, 2009
If I hadn't known it was David Lynch I wouldn't have known it was David Lynch. Touching and inspirational.
Everett McGill, Harry Dean Stanton, Jane Galloway Heitz
From director David Lynch comes a lyrical portrait of one man's real journey across America's Heartland. Filmed along the 260-mile route that the actual Alvin Straight traversed in 1994 from Laurens, ...( read more
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DVD Release Date: November 7, 2000
Stats: 1,347 reviews
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September 18, 2009A sweet, simple and beautiful masterpiece. American cinema at its very best!
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November 3, 2008Disney and David Lynch work together on a film and what is the result? The most humane film Lynch has ever done. Gone are the visual elements and non stories that have helped create some of the directors work (Mullholand Dr., Eraserhead, Blue Velvet.) and his worst (Dune, Lost Hi...( read more)
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October 31, 2008Amazing and sensitive without being schmaltzy. I didn't know that Lynch could keep himself from throwing some weirdness into a film.
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March 18, 2008A very simple film about a simple man. Very quiet and very moving.
Richard Farnsworth is perfect!
This film is completely different then anything Lynch has done before, but just as impressive. A kinder/gentler side of David Lynch. -
November 3, 2009Kinda cheesy feel-good/sad story about an old guy driving across state lines on a lawn mower to see his brother. I'm surprised it wasn't a Hallmark movie.
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September 25, 2009I was apprehensive about watching this one. Simple story, simple characters. It was either going to be amazing, or amazingly bad. Thankfully, it was the former. Farnsworth plays the likable Alvin Straight, a man on a journey spanning across States in order to see his estranged br...( read more)
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Critic Reviews
January 15, 2002
David Edelstein, Slate
January 1, 2000
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
The screenplay by John Roach and Mary Sweeney finds poetry and truth. full review
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June 9, 2006This Is The best film i've ever seen.
You really gotta watch it.
"There's no one knows your life better a brother that's near your age. He knows who you are and what you are better than anyone one earth. My brother and i said some unforgivable things the last time we met, but i'm trying to put that behind me. And this trip is a hard swallow of my pride. I just hope i'm not too late" -Alvin Straight
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