The Straight Story (1999)

This David Lynch film was on TVO last night. I asked Tuffy if she wanted to go for a walk, and she said after this great film - it had already been on for a while. I popped down for a look, and sat down to watch the rest. This is a lovely, slow, old-fart road movie about Alvin Straight, who as an old man drove across Iowa to see his brother on a riding lawn-mower, who he hadn't spoken to in a decade- who had suffered a stroke. Alvin wanted to make peace. This is unlike a David Lynch film in so many ways (for instance it's tender) - yet there are scenes that could have been done by no other director. I now have to see the first part of the film, which I missed. Richard Farnsworth starred as Alvin - it was his last movie.