National release on November 03, 1999
– In room from May 10
Dure : 1h51
Genre : Drama
Directed by David Lynch
With Richard Farnsworth, Sissy Spacek, Harry Dean Stanton, Jane Galloway Heitz, Joseph A. Carpenter
Synopsis
As its title indicates, it is indeed a true story, that of Alvin Straight who, at the age of seventy-three, after a bad fall, decided to leave Laurens, a village in northern Iowa, to find his older brother who has just had a stroke. The two brothers have been angry for ten years. Despite his poor health and after thinking about their dispute, Alvin decides to go see Lyle in Wisconsin and undertakes a journey of several hundred miles on his own.