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* EpunymousTitle: The title is a pun on the main character's surname.
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[[NotSoFast Unfortunately]], Straight is almost blind and half paralyzed, which leaves him unable to walk long distances or get a legal driver's license. [[{{Determinator}} Unwilling to let life end this way]], he hitches a trailer to his riding lawnmower and proceeds to tackle the 240 mile journey from Laurens, Iowa to Mount Zion, Wisconsin so that he may make amends with his sick brother.
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* BasedOnATrueStory: The film was based on an [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin_Straight actual event from 1994]], the biggest difference being some characters added for dramatic purposes and Henry's name change to Lyle. Alvin himself would live 2 more years after taking the journey, and Alvin in real life would try this '''AGAIN''', but was talked out of it that time.
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* BasedOnATrueStory: The film was based on an [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin_Straight actual event from 1994]], the biggest difference being some characters added for dramatic purposes and Henry's name change to Lyle. Alvin himself would live 2 two more years after taking the journey, and Alvin in real life would try this '''AGAIN''', '''again''', but was talked out of it that time.
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''The Straight Story'' is a 1999 film from [[{{Creator/Disney}} Walt Disney Pictures]] and directed by Creator/DavidLynch, starring Creator/RichardFarnsworth in the eponymous role along with Creator/SissySpacek and Creator/HarryDeanStanton.
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''The Straight Story'' is a 1999 film from [[{{Creator/Disney}} Walt Disney Pictures]] and directed by Creator/DavidLynch, starring Creator/RichardFarnsworth (in his final film role) in the eponymous role along with Creator/SissySpacek and Creator/HarryDeanStanton.
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* LighterAndSofter: Big time compared to the rest of David Lynch's filmography. The worst thing that happens in the film is Alvin recounting some war stories, (and even then they aren't graphic.), [[ItMakesSenseInContext Alvin shooting his broken lawnmower with a shotgun after it breaks down for the first time,]] and Alvin falling on the floor due to his age (while his neighbors worry about him, Alvin reassures that he's fie).
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* LighterAndSofter: Big time compared to the rest of David Lynch's filmography. The worst thing that happens in the film is Alvin recounting some war stories, (and even then they aren't graphic.), [[ItMakesSenseInContext Alvin shooting his broken lawnmower with a shotgun after it breaks down for the first time,]] and Alvin falling on the floor due to his age (while his neighbors worry about him, Alvin reassures that he's fie).fine).
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* LighterAndSofter: Big time compared to the rest of David Lynch's filmography. The worst thing that happens in the film is Alvin recounting some war stories, and even then they aren't graphic.
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* LighterAndSofter: Big time compared to the rest of David Lynch's filmography. The worst thing that happens in the film is Alvin recounting some war stories, and (and even then they aren't graphic.), [[ItMakesSenseInContext Alvin shooting his broken lawnmower with a shotgun after it breaks down for the first time,]] and Alvin falling on the floor due to his age (while his neighbors worry about him, Alvin reassures that he's fie).
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* CoolOldGuy: Alvin himself. Not only did he travel all the way to see his dying brother on a lawn mower, he's a nice man.
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* CoolOldGuy: Alvin himself. Not only did he travel all the way to see his dying brother on a lawn mower, he's a nice man.man who deeply cares about the people he meets.
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* SirNotAppearingInThisTrailer: Harry Dean Stanton plays [[spoiler: Lyle.]]
* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: Strongly Idealistic.
* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: Strongly Idealistic.
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* SirNotAppearingInThisTrailer: Harry Dean Stanton plays [[spoiler: Lyle.Lyle in the final two minutes of the film.]]
* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: Strongly Idealistic. The film shows that despite all odds (being half blind and half paralyzed, no drivers license, very little money to travel), determination and love can take you a long way (quite literally).
* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: Strongly Idealistic. The film shows that despite all odds (being half blind and half paralyzed, no drivers license, very little money to travel), determination and love can take you a long way (quite literally).
