The Straight Story (1999)
"A true story that proves a little determination goes a very, very long way."
Critics Score
🎬 90%
(RT: 95%, MC: 86) RT = Rotten Tomatoes (critic reviews). MC = Metacritic (weighted critic average). Critics Score is the average of both.
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Cast
Jane Galloway Heitz as Dorothy
Joseph A. Carpenter as Bud
Donald Wiegert as Sig
Tracey Maloney as Nurse
Dan Flannery as Doctor Gibbons
Jennifer Edwards as Brenda
Is The Straight Story good?
Yes. 89% of real audiences liked it, by Google's archived audience score. Critics agree, scoring it 90%.
Where it ranks on ThumbScore
By audience score, among films with 500 or more votes.
Overview
Retired farmer and widower Alvin Straight learns one day that his distant brother Lyle has suffered a stroke and may not recover. 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. Wikipedia ↗
