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	The Straight Story - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Straight Story is a motion picture, released in 1999 and directed by David Lynch.
		Alvin Straight (played by veteran actor Richard Farnsworth) is a sickly, elderly man who lives with his adult daughter Rose (Sissy Spacek).
		The film is the story of Alvin's six-week journey across rural America, the people he meets, his impact on their lives, and theirs on his.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Straight_Story (322 words)

	Review: The Straight Story (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The Straight Story is based on a real event in the life of a real person - the kind of thing that often shows up during the final, "feel good" segment of the evening news.
		It remains to be seen whether The Straight Story represents the beginning of a new era in Lynch's career, or whether it's just a brief change-of-pace.
		The Straight Story may lack the surreal, compelling quality that has defined the director's other seven features, but it is an example of an artist in peak form.
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/s/straight_story.html (953 words)

	The Straight Story (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The 'Straight Story' is a little gem and I bet I'll still be enjoying its warmth and honesty for a long time.
		the beauty of straight story is this is his 'g' rated quirkiness, and that's very appropriate for a man,who despite all of his progressive accomplishments in film, still lives in the suburbs.
		with straight story lynch set out to prove that he could indeed tell a story straight and its most certain there was a sly wink in titling this film.
	www.freeglossary.com /p:6305810109 (980 words)

	CNN - Review: 'Straight Story' an elegy on slow-moving wheels - October 29, 1999
		Straight's daughter, a mentally challenged woman played by Sissy Spacek, even speaks in a halting, disjointed rhythm that plays up the movie's overall indifference to picking up the beat.
		Their stories free the ghosts from their failing hearts, releasing the trapped spirits of the young men who, all those years ago, were inexplicably denied the right to grow old along with them.
		Straight's hope that he and his brother can once again lie on their backs like they did as children and gaze up the stars at the end of his trip is a reconciliation with his maker.
	www.cnn.com /SHOWBIZ/Movies/9910/29/review.straightstory/index.html (1020 words)

	kamera.co.uk - film review, The Straight Story
		There is a fear of an over-sentimentalized story due to the appearance of a few watery-eyed old men, the 'nice' music by Badalamenti and seeing the word 'Disney' in the opening credits, but this fear dissolves the further away from home Alvin gets.
		This is certainly not the case and TSS belongs with The Elephant Man in that it is simply told, beautifully photographed, expressively acted by its principal and ineffably moving.
		TSS is also about remembering, remembering what it was to be young for example and about loss.
	www.kamera.co.uk /reviews_extra/straightstory.php (440 words)

	DVDFILE.COM: THE STRAIGHT STORY review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The Straight Story is the first G-rated picture from the maestro behind such family favorites as Blue Velvet and Wild at Heart.
		As he directs it, The Straight Story is a poetic and lyrical journey through parts of the United States not considered glamorous or exciting enough to be depicted very often on film.
		The Straight Story moves at a pace that may try the patience of some viewers, but it is a highly rewarding experience for those who are open to it.
	www.dvdfile.com /software/review/dvd-video_2/straightstory.html (1709 words)

	Straight Story (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		And The Straight Story, the true story about Alvin Straight (who sadly passed away in 1996) on the surface seems far away from Lynch's typical stomping ground, but upon closer inspection, is Lynch at his finest.
		When Straight receives a call that Lyle was stricken with a stroke, he decides that it is time to mend things with his brother.
		Straight comes from a simpler time, when the delineation between bad and good was clear.
	haro-online.com /movies/straight_story.html (699 words)

	The Straight Story Greg's Preview - Yahoo! Movies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		And so, with the Straight story, he approaches that next place he had not yet visited, and yet, if you consider the homespun nature of both Lynch the man and one half of the vibe of Twin Peaks, it seems so inevitable: the Midwest, specifically Iowa.
		In a story that is simple and has a broad appeal especially for older audiences looking for that "type of movie they don't make anymore", David Lynch keeps his more eccentric influences to a minimum, but I should note two things that seemed to either bother or confuse some audience members.
		In the Straight story, David Lynch is documenting a story that stands vividly out from his films (except maybe The Elephant Man), in that it is not about people drenched in the night of life (sex, drugs, etc.).
	www.upcomingmovies.com /straightstory.html (1998 words)

	Salon Arts & Entertainment \| "The Straight Story"
		It's easy to imagine how that story was probably presented, as the sort of thing that's called a "human interest story" but reduced to an oddity to fill up a newspaper page or round out the 11 o'clock news.
		Lynch, with his deep love of the odd, must have heard Alvin Straight's story and thought, "Why not?" Alvin, immaculately and beautifully played by Richard Farnsworth, had cataracts that prevented him from driving a car, and he needed two canes to get around.
		If "The Straight Story" is the gentlest, most straightforward film Lynch has ever made (that's the dual meaning of the title) it is no less recognizably a David Lynch movie.
	www.salon.com /ent/movies/review/1999/10/15/straight/index.html (895 words)

	THE STRAIGHT STORY
		Straight is a widower and lives with his slow-witted daughter Rose (Sissy Spacek, Blast From the Past).
		His Straight is reminiscent of Peter Fonda’s Oscar-nominated turn in Ulee’s Gold, with both mature characters going to any length to preserve their family in films that take their time to unravel.
		But Story could be overshadowed by the Mouse House’s unusual number of Oscar-contenders this year, including The Sixth Sense and The Insider.
	www.sick-boy.com /straightstory.htm (588 words)

	The Straight Story: Cinephiles Movie Review
		Directed by David Lynch and written by John Roach and Mary Sweeney, The Straight Story narrates the eccentric journey of Alvin Straight (Richard Farnsworth in a very moving performance).
		Story (G-Rated and Disney-owned) follows the 260-mile route that Alvin Straight made in 1994 from Laurens, Iowa to Mt. Zion, Wisconsin on a 1966 John Deere lawnmower.
		Faithful to its title's dual meaning, The Straight Story is a film which unfolds as a simple, linear narration and which follows the events of its protagonist, Alvin Straight.
	www.cinephiles.net /The_Straight_Story/Film-Synopsis.html (168 words)

	The Straight Story (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The Straight Story is about an old man determined to visit his sick brother.
		Straight's assets are a riding lawn mower, a trailer and a lot of grit.
		The Straight Story was more than a swan song for Richard Farnsworth, it decisively placed him in the upper tier of American character actors.
	critics.emphasys.net /Reviews/straight_story.htm (437 words)

	Film & Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Het verbaast dat The Straight Story van David Lynch is. In films als Blue Velvet en Lost Highway en in de televisieserie Twin Peaks wilde hij laten zien wat er onder de oppervlakte van het Amerika van cherry pie en gemaaide gazons broeide.
		The Straight Story is gebaseerd op een waar gebeurd verhaal en vertelt over Alvin Straight, die in 1994 per grasmaaier van Laurens, Iowa naar Mount Zion, Wisconsin reisde, een afstand van zestig mijl.
		The Straight Story is waarschijnlijk de sloomste roadmovie die er ooit gemaakt is, maar in dat trage tempo zijn spanning en humor met vakmanschap gedoseerd.
	www.nrc.nl /W2/Nieuws/1999/12/01/Kun/01.html (510 words)

	Straight, Incorporated
		For six months, not 14 days, Bright was sequestered in the Straight program against her will, without a shred of peace or privacy, without permission to communicate freely with the outside world.
		"Straight had its own really weird lingo and some group customs," Bright recalls, describing fellow inmates who jumped around, frothed at the mouth, and waved their arms in reckless abandon during surreal "motivational-confessional" sessions in which they were compelled to publicly disclose their deepest, darkest secrets.
		Straight centers in Southern California, Virginia Beach, DC, Boston, Dallas, Orlando, Detroit, and Maryland were closed due to investigations in 1990, '91, and '92.
	www.cannabisculture.com /articles/2072.html (4027 words)

	The Straight Story - Wikipedia
		The Straight Story ist ein Film von David Lynch aus dem Jahr 1999.
		Die Hauptfigur ist der 73-jährige Rentner Alvin Straight, der nach sehr langer Zeit seinen älteren Bruder Lyle besuchen will, da dieser einen Schlaganfall erlitten hat.
		Straight ist nicht mehr in der Lage Auto zu fahren, weshalb er den weiten Weg quer durch die USA auf seinem Rasenmäher bewältigen will.
	de.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Straight_Story (116 words)

	The Straight Story (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		This might not be the kind of story you’d expect from David Lynch; for weeks I’ve been having fun telling people that the new David Lynch movie was rated G and produced by Disney, then watching their puzzled reactions.
		As she leaves the house and Alvin’s next-door neighbor distracts herself with tanning mirrors and Snoballs, a wind begins to blow, and the camera slowly approaches the side window of Alvin’s house just in time to catch the sound of him falling to the floor.
		To be frank, The Straight Story isn’t as important or thought-provoking a movie as Blue Velvet or Eraserhead.
	www.citypaper.net /movies/s/straightstory.shtml (633 words)

	Straight Story, The (1999): Reviews
		Clear-eyed and open-hearted, The Straight Story (which is based on reality) tells a simple tale, and it does so with a rare, blessed simplicity.
		And now in The Straight Story, no director has been so buzzingly alert to the emotional lives of those people or to the beauty of the world they inhabit as David Lynch.
		Sunny as The Straight Story appears, Lynch is still defamiliarizing the normal.
	www.metacritic.com /video/titles/straightstory (1081 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Video: The Straight Story [1999] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Throughout The Straight Story, 73-year-old Alvin Straight (Richard Farnsworth) gazes calmly at the night sky, as if the stars were reflections of his own memories.
		Alvin Straight is 73 years old and lives with his daughter Rose (Sissy Spacek), one of his 14 children of whom only 7 survived.
		This story is based on the true story of Alvin Straight, who died 3 years before the movie came out.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004RCOS (1305 words)

	David Lynch/The Straight story - de Filmkrant net-versie van december 1999, nr 206
		In The Straight story is geen zweempje mysterie of irrationaliteit te vinden; wel een oude man die op een grasmaaier door een idyllisch Amerika tuft.
		De ster van The Straight story is geen vamp of buitenissige vent, maar een oude, vriendelijke man die zich met behulp van stokken moet voortbewegen.
		David Lynch maakt keer op keer duidelijk dat The Straight story op zichzelf staat, dat hij zich niet bewust is van een samenhang in zijn oeuvre, en dat elk verhaal zijn eigen regels heeft.
	www.filmkrant.nl /av/org/filmkran/archief/fk206/lynch.html (1673 words)

	The Straight Story . Austin Chronicle . 11-01-99
		The Straight Story is a piece of American poetry, an elegiac ode to a 73-year-old man's defiant act of raging against the dying of the light.
		With The Straight Story, Lynch may appear to play it straight, but what he's really done is lift the rock to discover something else.
		Alvin Straight is a symbol of things past, a testament to the endurance of the common man, but he's also an oddball in an American Gothic landscape.
	www.filmvault.com /filmvault/austin/s/straightstorythe1.html (721 words)

	:: rogerebert.com :: The Straight Story
		The first time I saw "The Straight Story," I focused on the foreground and liked it.
		The movie isn't just about the old Alvin Straight's odyssey through the sleepy towns and rural districts of the Midwest, but about the people he finds to listen and care for him.
		Straight (Richard Farnsworth) is a 73-year-old man from in Laurens, Iowa, who learns that his brother is dying and wants to see him one last time.
	rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID%3D/19991015/REVIEWS/910150304/1023 (832 words)

	"The Straight Story" / a review from Christian Spotlight on the Movies
		The Straight Story is based on the real-life journey of Alvin Straight, a 73-year old resident of Laurens, Iowa who decided to go visit his brother Lyle in Mount Zion, Wisconsin after learning he suffered a stroke.
		However, what gives The Straight Story its power is not merely the amazing-but-true event that inspired the film, but the reason why Alvin decided to make the trip in the first place.
		While younger children may be bored by the film's gentle pacing, The Straight Story is a wonderful film for anyone, regardless of age, making this a definite must-see for the entire family.
	www.christiananswers.net /spotlight/movies/pre2000/thestraightstory.html (1176 words)

	Straight Story, The (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The Straight Story, David Lynch, Sissy Spacek, Jane Galloway, Joseph A. Carpenter, Donald Wiegert, Richard Farnsworth, Tracey Maloney, Dan Flannery, Jennifer Edwards-Hughes, Ed Grennan, Jack Walsh...
		Straight Story" tells the tale of an old man's cross-country odyssey on the back of...
		Alvin Straight is a seventy-three-year-old man who, upon hearing that his brother has suffered a stroke, feels the need...
	www.moviesbytitle.com /Straight-Story,-The.html (493 words)

	The Straight Story review
		Contrary to the sinuous Lost Highway, The Straight Story is as straight as a road in Iowa.
		The film recounts the journey (based on a true story) of a a wise and sly old man, Alvin Straight, who travels across Iowa on a tractor to visit his sick brother whom he has not seen in ten years.
		The Straight Story is one of those rare moments where one is happy not to have taken any shortcuts.
	www.plume-noire.com /movies/reviews/thestraightstory.html (645 words)

	The Straight Story
		Alvin Straight (Richard Farnsworth) is 73 years old and living in Laurens, Iowa, with his mentally-challenged daughter Rose (Sissy Spacek, in a brave, if brief, performance).
		A lot of Lynch fans are going to despise The Straight Story for its emotionality and homiletic sense of virtue, and because it displays an unalloyed affection for the flapjack side of America that we’re used to seeing him kid and scorch.
		The Straight Story is once again grounded in the world that all of us share, and in the trajectory of Lynch’s career it feels like an acoustic set played by a burned-out rocker who’s decided to get back to basics.
	www.culturevulture.net /Movies/StraightStory.htm (986 words)

	Straight Story Awards - LynchNet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Richard Farnsworth was nominated for both a Golden Globe and an Oscar for his role in Straight Story.
		Straight Story was nominated for four Independent Spirit Awards for Best Film, Best Director (Lynch), Best Actor (Farnsworth) and Best First Screenplay (John Roach & Mary Sweeney).
		The Straight Story won the best film award for mature audiences at the eighth annual Movieguide Awards.
	www.lynchnet.com /sstory/awards.html (218 words)

	The Straight Story
		The various encounters Alvin has while on his travels each reveal a new facet to his character, whether it be through sharing pearls of wisdom with a teenage runaway or a fellow W.W.II veteran, or by consoling a distraught commuter who keeps crashing into rogue deer while on her daily travels to and from work.
		What makes this film all the more incredible is that the story is a true one - the real life Straight died in the mid 90s several years after making the trip, and the movie is dedicated to him and his family.
		The Straight Story encapsulates the sound of the American soul, with a richness and grace and uncommon delicacy.
	www.moviemusicuk.us /straightcd.htm (814 words)

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