The Straight Story
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… From TMDB
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60 of 217 · most liked firstFuck Field of Dreams, no one made my beleaguered home state of Iowa look better than Lynch did in The Straight Story (1999) - a G-rated Disney movie!
unlabelledView post →I was on TS TV to talk about David Lynch's "family" movie, THE STRAIGHT STORY. This movie freaking rocks and so does TS TV. If you have Nebula, you can listen right now!
unlabelledView post →RIP the brilliantly original David Lynch So many haunting films like "The Elephant Man" or disturbing like "Blue Velvet" but my personal favourite was "The Straight Story" such a beautiful movie. RS
unlabelledView post →David Lynch's The Straight Story is on Film4 this afternoon if you want to indulge yourself in the best ambient road movie ever made.
unlabelledView post →After hearing the news about David Lynch earlier today I decided to rewatch The Straight Story. It’s an incredible movie. If you haven’t seen this one I highly recommend it. It’s really one of his best. Very sweet and very Lynch. A good one to watch w all the intense stuff going on right now.
unlabelledView post →Bit of a lame headline, but this write-up for "The Straight Story" is lovely: www.thetimes.com/culture/film...
unlabelledView post →Thrilled to see @tcmtv.bsky.social is honoring David Lynch with a night of his films on Friday, July 11th. The TCM Premier of THE STRAIGHT STORY at 8pE! (sorry not in Canada). Lynch's only G-rated film...and it's required viewing IMO. #TCMParty ^JW
unlabelledView post →There's a David Lynch tribute happening on TCM tonight. They are beginning at 8pm with The Straight Story. That's a great movie. It contains my favourite scene from any of his films.
unlabelledView post →Watched the one Lynch feature I hadn't seen yet, THE STRAIGHT STORY. Could barely hold it together some 20 mins in. What a gorgeous, gorgeous film, lacking his oneiric horror but limned w/ his glowing, sincere faith in humanity's capacity for kindness in the face of our brokenness & mortal frailty.
unlabelledView post →It's not the coolest or most "Lynchian" movie to call your favorite, but I saw THE STRAIGHT STORY last year for the first time and it absolutely wrecked me. RIP to one of one.
unlabelledView post →When I went on @blankcheck.bsky.social recently to talk about The Straight Story (a film I was honored to be asked on for), the most startling thing I realized is that Lynch made it right in between Lost Highway & Mulholland Drive. open.spotify.com/episode/0kiJ...
unlabelledView post →I don't know about the rest of you, but the first Lynch film I'm rewatching is The Straight Story. One of the most underrated, gutting films you'll ever see.
unlabelledView post →PSA for UK viewers: THE STRAIGHT STORY is on Film 4 at 4.10pm tomorrow afternoon (Sunday 2nd Feb). #FilmSky #DavidLynch
unlabelledView post →I finally watched The Straight Story for the first time tonight. My last Lynch film. Guess I'd been unconsciously saving it for the right time. God, it really hit me. So beautiful, so chill, so much kindness and empathy 😭
unlabelledView post →This reminds me of a movie that’s not getting discussed as much today, but that I loved. For all the talk of his dark, strange movies, “The Straight Story” is a sweet, gentle, G-rated Walt Disney Pictures release that’s somehow still unmistakably Lynchian.
unlabelledView post →I saw a preview of the TWIN PEAKS pilot at the Museum of Broadcasting in Mar, 1990 as an NYU film school student and it changed my life. WILD AT HEART, FWWM, LOST HIGHWAY, THE STRAIGHT STORY, and MULHOLLAND DRIVE were all opening night watches, but TWIN PEAKS is in my soul. Thank you, David Lynch.
unlabelledView post →Our man in the trenches (film) @scotttobias.bsky.social is just tremendous on The Straight Story today
unlabelledView post →Rest in peace, David Lynch. David Lynch was a great story teller. Many of his stories were graphic sexual tales, but not all. My favorite was The Straight Story, a Rated G film about a man who drove his tractor across Iowa after losing his driver's license. May his memory be for a blessing.
unlabelledView post →It was cathartic for me to write this essay, and this is the last time I'll be sharing it. Watch a David Lynch movie today. Maybe The Straight Story.
unlabelledView post →Talking with the boys in the Group Chat about Hank Hill reviewing every David Lynch movie after declaring The Straight Story the best film ever made
unlabelledView post →Today is the 26th anniversary of The Straight Story and an ideal opportunity to watch this true little miracle of a film by the great David Lynch. ⬇️⬇️⬇️ cinephiliabeyond.org/straight-sto...
unlabelledView post →Today's my 30th birthday! Last weekend my family rented a local theater and we watched The Straight Story with a big group of family and friends. An incredible night.
unlabelledView post →...and the number one spot on our list of the Greatest Disney Villains of All Time goes to... The Unrelenting Passage of Time and the Inevitability of One's Own Mortality from David Lynch's 1999 film The Straight Story!!!!!! Congrats to Maleficent in second place!
unlabelledView post →For people in the UK, David Lynch's beautifully tender film The Straight Story is streaming on Channel 4 for the next 11 days. Some people say it isn't "Lynchian" - they're talking rot, it's sublime. Certainly cheered me up in this rather dismal moment in history. www.channel4.com/programmes/t...
unlabelledView post →Lynch has more famous and well regarded films and shows, all of it the work of a genius visionary and artist, but it's THE STRAIGHT STORY that brought me to him, a G-rated, Disney-distributed story of a man on a lawnmower reckoning with time running out. it is truly dear to me.
unlabelledView post →Watched David Lynch's THE STRAIGHT STORY (1999) for the first time and thoroughly enjoyed it. Wholesome and heart-wrenching with performances that felt like everyday people. So different from Lynch's other films. Available on the Criterion Channel. #filmsky
unlabelledView post →The Straight Story has aged beautifully. A humane and heartfelt story. The film still has glorious David Lynch moments, the woman who keeps crashing into deer, but on the whole, it is a rather sweet, but sentiment-free, film about quotidian life, through the eyes of a stubborn, ornery man.
unlabelledView post →"The Straight Story" is a movie about how the proper way to honor the Greatest Generation is better rural transit.
unlabelledView post →Lord what a loss. Go watch The Straight Story, everyone. It’s on Disney+. It is balm for the soul. variety.com/2025/film/ne...
unlabelledView post →Criterion November releases are so sick. Marie Antoinette is inspired, a transcendent film. Wild at Heart means the only David Lynch features not in the Collection are Dune and The Straight Story, safe to assume a box set is coming. Harold and Maude had been OOP for a few years, now back in 4K.
unlabelledView post →Tonight’s film: The Straight Story. Sadder than expected but threaded with hope. RIP David Lynch boxd.it/8GwmjF
unlabelledView post →THE STRAIGHT STORY (1999, Lynch): Just when I thought I was all out of tears, this film shattered me into a million pieces all over again.
unlabelledView post →David directed the movie The Straight Story based on a true story of an elderly man who drove his lawnmower 240 miles across Iowa to visit his brother in Wisconsin. They shot it on location and since my hometown was on the original route, they filmed quite a few parts just outside my hometown.
unlabelledView post →Y’all will have to let me know what I’m missing, because I’ve never watched Twin Peaks or any Lynch films save one: The Straight Story. An odd little movie but it was many years ago I saw it. RIP to a great artist. I suppose I should check out his work!
unlabelledView post →It’s an honor to be the narrator of “Straight and Narrow: Inside the Film,” a special feature on the new Studio Canal+ 4K release of David Lynch’s “The Straight Story.” This is a beautiful release of the film. Highly recommended.
unlabelledView post →Well I am very sad that there is no longer a David Lynch. I liked just knowing he was there. Eraserhead was my first ever review in Total Film. The Straight Story is one of my favourite films, ever. Lost Highway blew my mind. He made cinema and TV better for everyone.
unlabelledView post →I could argue that "The Straight Story" is closer to who David Lynch was as a person than anything else he made. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ma...
unlabelledView post →Last night my daughter and I attended a showing of The Straight Story directed by David Lynch at Blue Grass Memorial Gardens, the cemetery where Harry Dean Stanton is buried, as part of an annual festival honoring Stanton. The weather was perfect and Ed Begley, Jr. was there. #FilmSky
unlabelledView post →There are so many David Lynch movies and shows that are worth revisiting, but let me put in a plug for his genius, restrained meditation on aging, love, and community, The Straight Story variety.com/2025/film/ne...
unlabelledView post →#lastfourwatched #letterboxdfriday god damn is Lucky a good movie, and The Straight Story
unlabelledView post →For Father’s Day, all I ask as a gift is for my family to sit and watch a movie with me. No phones, just full attention. This year’s selection is David Lynch’s The Straight Story (1999). I’ve seen it a bunch of times but today I realized how appropriate it is for this day. #CriterionChannel #FilmSky
unlabelledView post →Billy Wilder's SUNSET BOULEVARD screens this Friday at 3pm, presented in 35MM! One Show Only - Introduced by producer/editor/writer Mary Sweeney (MULHOLLAND DRIVE, LOST HIGHWAY, THE STRAIGHT STORY) Get Tickets Now: musicboxtheatre.com/films-and-ev...
unlabelledView post →David Lynch: One-of-a-kind visionary. RIP. A good rewatch festival might be cathartic. My titles, minus Dune & The Straight Story. #physicalmedia #physicalmediaforever #filmsky 📽🎥🎞🎬
unlabelledView post →An underrated film in Lynch’s oeuvre, The Straight Story brings the filmmaker out to the forefront, making one of the most earnest and unironically human films out there. Without The Straight Story, Lynch’s filmography would seem painfully incomplete.
unlabelledView post →Take a journey with David Lynch's loveliest movie THE STRAIGHT STORY, presented in 35MM🚜 Featuring a Q&A with the film's editor/producer/co-writer MARY SWEENEY This Sunday April 20th at 11:15am Get Tickets Now: musicboxtheatre.com/films-and-ev...
unlabelledView post →Decided to spin up my favorite David Lynch film tonight: THE STRAIGHT STORY is his most profound artistic statement on the power of empathy, compassion, and forgiveness. It reduces me to a quivering puddle every single time.
unlabelledView post →[has only seen The Straight Story and thinks every Lynch movie is The Straight Story] getting a certain right-wing vibe from this
unlabelledView post →There aren't many movies that really "get" what makes Iowa home. THE STRAIGHT STORY gets it. David Lynch spent a fair share of time here, studying TM in Fairfield. I would consider anyone who write this love poem to the quiet beauty of Iowa to be an honorary Iowan.
unlabelledView post →Just read Roger's review of THE STRAIGHT STORY, and breaking news, but damn that man could write.
unlabelledView post →When StudioCanal asked me for a favourite movie to review on blu-ray, I chose David Lynch's The Elephant Man. For a director known for trickiness and obscurity, this was, alongside The Straight Story, probably his most straightforward and downright moving film. film-authority.com/2022/07/13/t...
unlabelledView post →Besides DUNE, this is my favorite David Lynch film, hands down. To my Anne of Green Gables fam -- Matthew Cuthbert (Richard Farnsworth) is the lead of THE STRAIGHT STORY, which should tell you all you need to know about it being wonderful.
unlabelledView post →watching The Straight Story for the first time. David Lynch’s most normal movie, it’s about a guy that rides a tractor for six weeks.
unlabelledView post →I did not realize that David Lynch had directed “The Straight Story.” This film is one of my faves, along with “Nebraska” and “Thelma.” Watch all three if you can…they are funny, heartwarming stories of indomitable older people.
unlabelledView post →#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched The Straight Story (once just the film, then the extras, then audio commentary) + a pile a crap thrown in.
unlabelledView post →the only film of David’s i have yet to watch is Inland Empire - and i hope to find a physical copy of The Straight Story - i’m broken, shattered, shocked.
unlabelledView post →Each episode covers a different movie. Episode 1 covers The Straight Story (1999). Released by Disney, it's a poetic family drama about a man who drives a lawn mower across state lines to visit his estranged brother.
unlabelledView post →2. David Lynch: The Straight Story--supposedly his "atypical" film--is a direct bridge to Twin Peaks: The Return in numerous ways, including that Richard Farnsworth was terminally ill during the shooting but insisted on continuing. Stranger, kinder & harsher than you think all at once.
unlabelledView post →David Lynch’s THE STRAIGHT STORY (1999) is his only G-rated film—yet it’s just as emotionally powerful and quirky as his darker work. #TCMParty #TheStraightStory ^JW
unlabelledView post →Several years ago, I wrote a piece for @lwlies.com about a very beautiful movie called The Straight Story. It was directed by #DavidLynch. You can read my appreciative piece here: lwlies.com/articles/the... Thankyou.
unlabelledView post →Finally got around to watching Lynch's The Straight Story this evening and what a beautiful little film it is. Can't believe it's taken me this long to see it.
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