The Best 10 The Straight Story Harry Dean Stanton - Alvin Straight (Richard Farnsworth), a retired farmer and widower in his 70s, learns one day that his distant brother Lyle (Harry Dean Stanton) has had a stroke and may not recover. The Whole Truth. David Lynch's 1999, United States. featuring. "Walt Disney Pictures Presents a Film by David Lynch," Richard Farnsworth, Sissy Spacek, Jane Galloway Heitz, Harry Dean Stanton, "Walt Disney Pictures Presents a Film by David Lynch": from the opening titles, Lynch's
David Lynch directed The Straight Story, a 1999 biographical road drama film. Mary Sweeney, Lynch's longtime companion and collaborator, edited and produced the film, and she also co-wrote the script with John E. Roach. It is based on the actual account of Alvin Straight's 1994 lawn mower trek between Iowa and Wisconsin. Alvin (Richard Farnsworth) is a World War II veteran who lives alone. Stanton was born in West Irvine, Kentucky, to tobacco farmer and barber Sheridan Harry Stanton and cook Ersel (née Moberly). When Stanton was in high school, his parents split; both eventually remarried. Stanton had two younger brothers named Archie and Ralph, as well as a younger half-brother named Stanley McKnight. His family came from a musical household.
15 September 2017 Stanton was born in a tiny village in Kentucky to a tobacco farmer and barber, Sheridan Harry Stanton, and a hairdresser and cook, Ersel. In The Straight Story, after graduating from high school (1999) Lyle, played by Harry Dean Stanton. Displaying all four things Jump to: Quotes (1) Photos (3) Photos [Last Lines] Quotes Straight, Lyle
