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About
Retired farmer and widower Alvin Straight learns one day that his estranged brother Lyle has suffered a severe stroke. 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. He then has the idea of making the trip on his old lawnmower, thus beginning a picturesque and at times deeply spiritual odyssey.
Theatrical
Oct 15, 1999
Digital
Apr 30, 2020
Box Office
$6.4M
Budget
$10.0M
Return
0.6x
DVD / Blu-ray
Dec 2, 2000
Theaters
6
Director
Producers
Music
Studio
Les Films Alain Sarde, Picture Factory, Le Studio Canal+, Film4 Productions
Cast
Full credits →R
Richard Farnsworth
Alvin
S
Sissy Spacek
Rose
J
Jane Galloway Heitz
Dorothy
D
Dan Flannery
Doctor Gibbons
J
Jack Walsh
Apple
E
Everett McGill
Tom the John Deere Dealer
M
Matt Guidry
Steve
B
Bill McCallum
Rat
B
Barbara E. Robertson
Deer Woman
J
James Cada
Danny Riordan
S
Sally Wingert
Darla Riordan
B
Barbara Kingsley
Janet Johnson
W
Wiley Harker
Verlyn Heller
K
Kevin Farley
Harald
J
John Farley
Thorvald
J
John Lordan
Priest
R
Russ Reed
Mt. Zion Bartender
H
Harry Dean Stanton
Lyle
