Straight Story

Pros: Richard Farnsworth, David Lynch, script, score
Cons: not really

A simple, slow moving film with a heart of gold, David Lynch's The Straight Story (1999) shou ...

Pros: Some "names" in this one, but don't let that get your blood pressure up.
Cons: The bathroom breaks were more exciting than the film.

If you want a movie that is boring enough to make building matchstick forts invigorating, irritating enough to make nails on a chalkboard sound like music, and tedious enough to set you to thinking about taking up advanced crochet classes, then I have a f ...

Pros: great story and beautiful scenery
Cons: none

Alvin Straight 1921-1996

I certainly have encountered mixed reviews about this movie, anywhere from fantastic to total boredom. But much like Alvin Straight, I found this movie traveled down the middle road. I started watching movies long...

Pros: A beautiful story based on the journey of a very decent man
Cons: none

As the credits begin for "The Straight Story" two names appear in seemingly mocking confusion: Walt Disney and David Lynch. Disney produced a David Lynch movie? Lynch of "Blue Velvet", "Lost Highways" and "Twin Peaks"? That said, this is a tremendous...

Pros: Great cast, neat story
Cons: A little slow

The Straight Story caught my attention for two reasons. One, it is based on a true story, and I'm a sucker for those. Two, the story seems so absurd that I couldn't resist the curiosity of seeing how one can make a movie about a guy who drives his lawn...

Pros: Throw any superlative adjective on the posters for this movie and it'll stick: "Beautiful!" "Inspiring!" "Unforgettable!" "Masterpiece!"
Cons: As Straight's developmentally-disabled daughter, Sissy Spacek's stammering performance gets a little grating (but only a little)

David Lynch's The Straight Story moves at the pace of its two main characters: a 73-year-old man with busted hips and a 1966 John Deere riding lawnmower in serious need of a new drive belt. The man, the mower and the movie crawl along at seven...

Pros: Thoughtful, good script, moving at times.
Cons: Maybe a little too pat.

The Straight Story is a quiet, thoughtful movie that does about as much as possible with the main story line, the true-life tale of an old man who drives a riding lawnmower on highway shoulders for hundreds of miles to visit an elderly brother who...

Pros: An understated, beautiful and moving film.
Cons: There might be a single line of dialogue that is trite, but I didn't notice it.

Lynch is notorious for his seemingly skewed use of celluloid, his off-beat characters, the use of symbolism and visual effects, but there is no reason for him to punt to his usual tactics in The Straight Story.

The premise of the film...

Pros: Beautifully told true & wholesome story/Excellent acting!
Cons: If you're looking for action and adventure, this isn't for you!

How many of us will someday look back on our lives with regret for what we should have done, could have done, might have done? In The Straight Story, a film by David Lynch, Richard Farnsworth plays gentle and stubborn Alvin Straight, a 73-year-old...

Pros: A geniune masterpiece
Cons: Requires patience

“The Straight Story”: Review
by Scott L. Black

“The Straight Story,” David Lynch’s latest foray into his continuing exploration of the themes of loneliness, isolation, family, and the search for companionship, is an unforgettable love...

Pros: Farnsworth's triumphant epitaph and great filmwork by Lynch. Best film.
Cons: No severed ears, Nicolas Presleys, and no pies.

Alvin Straight trundles along with his cane-legs doing most of the trundling. He’s an Iowa framer heading into the last phase of his life, so he goes through his stoically with nary a peep. He figures he did all his peeping years ago, so what more does...

Pros: Heartfelt acting by Sissy Spacek and Richard Farnsworth
Cons: Slow pace may not work for some viewers

Summer movies got you down? Can't figure out why you should see MI:2 when you didn't see the first movie? Tired of explosions, deaths, nudity, and sex every five minutes? Well, I'd like to present to you the perfect anti-"summer movie" movie:...

Pros: Nice story
Cons: Pace is too slow, Boring

Straight Story is a new release starring Richard Farnsworth as Alvin Straight. Sissy Spacek as Rosie Straight, his daughter. Directed by David Lynch.

This is the true story based upon the life of 71 year old Alvin Straight. The tale is...

Pros: Richard Farnsworth's performance
Cons: Slo-o-o-ow, make that glacial

If anyone had ever told me that the names, "David Lynch" and "Disney" could be used together in any sentence that wasn't ironic, I would have laughed. David Lynch and Disney form a perfect oxymoron, seemingly mutually self exclusive,...

Pros: Beautiful, true story.
Cons: May not excite the numb.

...David Lynch has multiple personality disorder. How in the world can the same guy who directed Lost Highway have directed The Straight Story, similar only in their association with a highway and that they were both on film in theaters? There could...