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An old man embarks on a bizarre cross-country journey to visit his estranged brother, hoping to heal the rift between them before it is too late. Though his eyesight leaves much to be desired, he carries on regardless - choosing a motorised lawnmower as his form of transport. David Lynch's drama, starring Richard Farnsworth, Sissy Spacek, Jane Galloway, Everett McGill and Harry Dean Stanton
1999
HD
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General
Indie
Movie/Drama
Cast & Crew
Richard Farnsworth
(Actor)
.. Alvin Straight
Sissy Spacek
(Actor)
.. Rose Straight
Jane Galloway
(Actor)
.. Dorothy
Everett McGill
(Actor)
.. Tom
Harry Dean Stanton
(Actor)
.. Lyle Straight
John Farley
(Actor)
.. Thorvald Olsen
Kevin Farley
(Actor)
.. Harald Olsen
David Lynch
(Director)
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Did You Know..
Richard Farnsworth
(Actor)
.. Alvin Straight
Sissy Spacek
(Actor)
.. Rose Straight
Jane Galloway
(Actor)
.. Dorothy
Everett McGill
(Actor)
.. Tom
Harry Dean Stanton
(Actor)
.. Lyle Straight
Born:
July 14, 1926
in
Kentucky, Stanton
Best Known For:
His numerous big-screen roles
Early-life:
Born July 14, 1926, in Kentucky, Stanton, graduated from Lafayette Senior High School. He joined the US Navy in the 1940s and served in Okinawa during World War Two. After being discharged, he became a drama student at the University of Kentucky. He honed his craft in a production of Pygmalion, and later moved to California, where he worked at the Pasadena Playhouse. Stanton toured the States with a male choir, worked in children's theatre, and then returned to California.
Career:
Almost 50 years after making his film debut in Tomahawk Trail, he has appeared in more than 150 projects, including Revolt at Fort Laramie, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Have Gun - Will Travel, Rawhide, The Fugitive and The Wild Wild West. He's also featured in cult films Cool Hand Luke, Kelly's Heroes, The Godfather Part II, Alien, Escape From New York, Pretty in Pink, Paris, Texas, Repo Man and The Green Mile. Popped up in Ant and Dec vehicle Alien Autopsy and had a recurring role on US drama Big Love.
Quote:
"I've been rather like a cat. I'm finicky."
Trivia:
Stanton is also an acclaimed musician who has worked with Bob Dylan and Bing Crosby.
John Farley
(Actor)
.. Thorvald Olsen
Kevin Farley
(Actor)
.. Harald Olsen
David Lynch
(Director)
Born:
January 20, 1946
in
Missoula, Montana
Best Known For:
Blue Velvet and Twin Peaks.
Early-life:
David Keith Lynch was born in Missoula, Montana, on January 20, 1946. The eldest of three children born to a research scientist working for the Forest Service in the US. Due to his father's work, Lynch travelled a lot as a child. He studied at Washington DC's Corcoran School of Art and Boston Museum School before travelling to Europe to work with abstract expressionist Oskar Kokoschka, but returned home after just 15 days.
Career:
Lynch enrolled at the Pennysylvania Academy of Fine Arts where he made his first films, including the animated Six Men Getting Sick and The Alphabet. He began working on his debut feature, Eraserhead, in 1971. It was released six years later and has become a cult favourite. In 1980 he received the first of his Oscar nominations for directing and co-writing The Elephant Man. The others were for Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive. Celebrated TV series Twin Peaks was a hit with critics and viewers alike. Since then he's made such films as Wild at Heart, Lost Highway and Inland Empire, branched out into selling coffee beans and even produced electro-pop music.
Quote:
"All my movies are about strange worlds that you can't go into unless you build them and film them. That's what's so important about film to me. I just like going into strange worlds."
Trivia:
Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard (1950) is one of his favourite films.
