A true story that proves a little determination goes a very, very long way.
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.
$10,000,000
$6,418,028
October 15, 1999
Les Films Alain Sarde, Picture Factory
36 people
Richard Farnsworth
Alvin
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Sissy Spacek
Rose
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Jane Galloway Heitz
Dorothy
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Joseph A. Carpenter
Bud
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Donald Wiegert
Sig
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Tracey Maloney
Nurse
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Dan Flannery
Doctor Gibbons
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Jennifer Edwards
Brenda
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Ed Grennan
Pete
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Jack Walsh
Apple
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Gil Pearson
Bus Driver
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Barbara June Patterson
Woman on Bus
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