Gus Straight wasn’t sure what to expect. It had been a couple of years since his father, Alvin Straight, had driven his ...

Lynch’s “The Straight Story” (1999), however—written by Mary Sweeney and John E. Roach— is more like a lazy daydream. It’s a ...

And yet, with “The Straight Story,” love’s divineness is not ... Times ahead of the film’s limited theatrical release in 1999. “I don’t know whether what’s in the air is also a ...

Early on in The Straight Story, the 1999 drama that David Lynch called his “most experimental film,” a doctor tells 73-year-old Alvin Straight that he likely has emphysema and that if he doesn ...

Seventy-three year old Alvin Straight is a simple living and stubborn man who lives on his social security. He needs to do things on his own terms. He is in failing health. Both his hips are shot ...

The latter is the unlikely tale of Alvin Straight ... helped me understand why Alvin’s story — as Hollywood director David Lynch portrayed it in 1999 — is such an appealing one, no bronze ...