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THE STRAIGHT STORY
Synopsis
In the summer of 1994, Alvin Ray Straight, resident of rural Laurens, Iowa, embarked on a trip covering 350 miles to visit his ailing brother across the Mississippi in Mt. Zion, Wisconsin. He made his trip on a ¿66 John Deere riding lawn mower and it took him 6 weeks.
Credits
- Jack FISK - Set Designer
- David LYNCH - Director
- John ROACH - Screenplay
- Mary SWEENEY - Screenplay
- Freddie FRANCIS - Cinematography
- Angelo BALADAMENTI - Music
- Mary SWEENEY - Film Editor
Actors
- John FARLEY - Thorvald Olsen
- Kevin FARLEY - Harold Olsen
- Richard FARNSWORTH - Alvin Straight
- Everett MCGILL - Tom le vendeur de John Deere
- Sissy SPACEK - Rose Straight
- Harry Dean STANTON - Lyle Straight
Contacts and useful links
Production
NATIONAL FILM AND TELEVISION SCHOOL (NFTS) - Station Road, Beaconsfield - Beaconsfield Film Studios - HP9 1LG Bucks - Royaume-Uni - festivals@nftsfilm-tv.ac.uk
Distribution
STUDIO "KADAM-T" - 16 Al Farabi ave. - 480067 Almaty - Kazakhstan - T : 7 32 72 48 11 08 - kadam@nm.ru
Foreign sales
ACADEMY OF PERFORMING ARTS- FILM AND TELEVISION SCHOOL (FAMU) - Jirina BALVINOVA - Smetanovo Nabrezi 2 - 11665 Prague 1 - République Tchèque- T : 420 2 24 22 91 76 - balvinova@famu.cz
The Official Selection 1999
In Competition
- 8 1/2 WOMEN
- A CARTA
- CRADLE WILL ROCK
- EL CORONEL NO TIENE QUIEN LE ESCRIBA
- FELICIA'S JOURNEY
- GHESSE HAYE KISH
- GHOST DOG : THE WAY OF THE SAMURAI
- KADOSH
- KIKUJIRO
- L'HUMANITE
- LA BALIA
- LE TEMPS RETROUVE
- LIMBO
- LOVE WILL TEAR US APART
- MOLOCH
- NOS VIES HEUREUSES
- POLA X
- ROSETTA
- THE EMPEROR AND THE ASSASSIN
- THE STRAIGHT STORY
- TODO SOBRE MI MADRE
- WONDERLAND














