History YMMV / TheStraightStory

** A meta example: [[ARareSentence "Walt Disney Pictures presents... A film by David Lynch"]]

* MemeticMutation:
** The Gay Story[[labelnote: Explanation]]Due to the film’s title, many people joke that movie’s sequel would be called “The Gay Story.”[[/labelnote]]

* OneSceneWonder: [[spoiler: Lyle]] is only in the final scene, but it's the most important scene in the film. Creator/DougWalker argued that this scene actually made the entire film work for him, as he'd been bored almost to tears up to that point, but [[spoiler:Lyle's]] appearance recontextualised the whole picture.

** The Gay Story[[labelnote: Explanation]]Due to the film’s title, many people joke that movie’s sequel would be called “The Gay Story.[[/labelnote]]

** The Gay Story/The X Story[[labelnote: Explanation]]Due to the film’s title, many people joke that movie’s sequel would be called “The Gay Story. This[[/labelnote]]

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Really, the entire score by Angelo Badalamenti, but particularly [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xk8Y-XxaAog Laurens Walking]].

* OneSceneWonder: [[spoiler: Creator/HarryDeanStanton as Lyle]] is only in the final scene, but it's the most important scene in the film. Creator/DougWalker argued that this scene actually made the entire film work for him, as he'd been bored almost to tears up to that point, but [[spoiler:Lyle's]] appearance recontextualised the whole picture.

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids: It may be rated G and distributed by Disney, but chances are most kids would be bored to tears by this movie due to its slow pacing and more mature themes about family and the inevitability of death. As a story of a sick old man, traveling hundreds of miles on his lawnmower to reconcile with his estranged brother, it's been described as a David Lynch film one could take one's ''parents'' to.

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids: It may be rated G and distributed by Disney, but chances are most kids would be bored to tears by this movie due to its slow pacing and more mature themes about family. As a story of a sick old man, traveling hundreds of miles on his lawnmower to reconcile with his estranged brother, it's been described as a David Lynch film one could take one's ''parents'' to.

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids: It may be rated G and distributed by Disney, but chances are most kids would be bored to tears by this movie. As a story of a sick old man, traveling hundreds of miles on his lawnmower to reconcile with his estranged brother, it's been described as a David Lynch film one could take one's ''parents'' to.

* AwardSnub: While Farnsworth earned a well-deserved Best Actor nomination, this movie didn't earn any other nomination for the Oscars, which is a darn shame considering this was David Lynch directing an acclaimed and accessible film that still deployed his unique visual style. Got snubbed for Cinematography, musical score, screenplay, and for Sissy Spacek's performance. Although the score did get a Golden Globe nomination

* AwardSnub: While Farnsworth earned a well-deserved Best Actor nomination, this movie didn't earn any other nomination for the Oscars, which is a darn shame considering this was David Lynch directing an acclaimed and accessible film that still deployed his unique visual style. Got snubbed for Cinematography, musical score, screenplay, and for Sissy Spacek's performance.
** Although the score did get a Golden Globe nomination

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids: Okay, it's a G-Rated Disney flick. But it's still not for kids, many of whom would be bored to tears. As a story of a sick old man, traveling hundreds of miles on his lawnmower to reconcile with his estranged brother, it's been described as a David Lynch film one could take one's ''parents'' to.

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: Alvin's encounter with a crazily distraught woman who keeps on accidentally running over deer. While it arguably fits with the film's overall theme of mortality, the only thing it really adds to the film is that Alvin eats the deer and mounts the antlers on his tractor. For viewers familiar with Lynch though, this scene is one of the few [[CreatorThumbprint indicators]] that Lynch was directing the movie.

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: Alvin's encounter with a crazily distraught woman who keeps on accidentally running over deer. The only thing it really adds to the film is that Alvin eats the deer and mounts the antlers on his tractor.

* MindScrew and LogicBomb: The [[MindScrew Mind-Screwy]] aspect is that by the time this film was made, pretty much the only way David Lynch could be strange and weird was by making an unstrange, unweird, flat-out straight and sane film.

* MindScrew and LogicBomb: The [[MindScrew Mind-Screwy]] aspect is that by the time this film was made, pretty much the only way David Lynch could be strange and weird is by making an unstrange, unweird, flat-out straight and sane film.

* FunnyMoments:

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xk8Y-XxaAog Laurens Walking]].

* FunnyMoments: A meta example: [[ARareSentence "Walt Disney Pictures presents... A film by David Lynch"]]
** The blurb on the back of the DVD cover: [[OverlyNarrowSuperlative "The Sweetest and Most Compassionate Movie Lynch Has Ever Made."]] [[labelnote:*]]Michael Wilmington, ''Chicago Tribune''[[/labelnote]]

** The blurb on the back of the DVD cover: [[OverlyNarrowSuperlative "The Sweetest and Most Compassionate Movie Lynch Has Ever Made."]] [[labelnote:*]]Michael Wilmington, ''Chicago Tribune''[[/labelnote]]
* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: When Alvin Straight meets his brother and neither of them say anything, but are able to acknowledge each other one last time.

* FunnyMoments: A meta example: [[ARareSentence "Walt Disney Pictures presents...A film by David Lynch"]]

* FunnyMoments: A meta example: [[ARareSentence "Walt Disney presents...A film by David Lynch"]]

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xk8Y-XxaAog Laurens Walking]].
* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: When Alvin Straight meets his brother and neither of them say anything, but are able to acknowledge each other one last time.