{4\/5} “At my age I’ve seen about all that life has to dish out. I know to separate the wheat from the chaff, let the small stuff fall away.”<\/p>\n
Alvin’s brother has suffered a stroke. Even though the two of them said unthinkable things to each other 10 years ago, he decides he needs to go and see him. Since Alvin doesn’t have a driver’s license, he takes his riding lawn mower on the road with a trailer behind it. He doesn’t have much money, so at night he pulls over and camps in a field. Although the trip takes several weeks, he finally sees his brother.<\/p>\n
The Straight Story<\/strong> was released in 1998. It’s based on a true story.<\/p>\n It’s a slow moving movie that probably wouldn’t get made today. It’s a gentle story with no bad guys and no car chases. If you’re a fan of Richard Farnsworth, say from The Grey Fox<\/strong>, and you have patience then you might give this a try.<\/p>\n There’s not much story — it’s all about the character of Alvin, who stubbornly persists in the face of the various obstacles that are thrown at him.<\/p>\n Alvin meets some friendly people along the way. He tells one fellow World War II veteran a story that he’s never told anyone else.<\/p>\n The music with a country flavour is by Angelo Badalamenti (A Very Long Engagement<\/strong>).<\/p>\n Richard Farnsworth (the TV movie Anne of Green Gables<\/strong>) plays Alvin. Sissy Spacek (Blast From the Past<\/strong>) plays his daughter Rose. Harry Dean Stanton (Alien<\/strong>) briefly plays his brother Lyle.<\/p>\n The movie was directed by David Lynch (The Elephant Man<\/strong>). Although Lynch is known for his unusual movies, this one is more straightforward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" {4\/5} “At my age I’ve seen about all that life has to dish out. I know to separate the wheat from the chaff, let the small stuff fall away.” Alvin’s brother has suffered a stroke. Even though the two of them said unthinkable things to each other 10 years ago, he decides he needs to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[15,6,5],"class_list":["post-2453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-drama","tag-movie","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2453"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2459,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453\/revisions\/2459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}