TY - ADVS AU - Edelstein,Neal AU - Farnsworth,Richard AU - Lynch,David AU - Roach,John AU - Spacek,Sissy AU - Stanton,Harry Dean AU - Sweeney,Mary ED - Buena Vista Home Entertainment (Firm) ED - Film Four International. ED - Films Alain Sarde (Firm) ED - Picture Factory. ED - Studio Canal+. ED - Walt Disney Home Video (Firm) ED - Walt Disney Pictures. TI - The straight story SN - 0788823337 PY - 2003///] CY - Burbank, CA PB - Walt Disney Home Video, Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment KW - Straight, Alvin KW - Families KW - Middle West KW - Drama KW - Reconciliation KW - Iowa KW - Feature films KW - lcgft KW - Road films KW - Video recordings for the hearing impaired N1 - Includes theatrical trailer; Originally produced as a motion picture in 1999; Director of photography, Freddie Francis ; editor, Mary Sweeney ; music, Angelo Badalamenti; Richard Farnsworth, Sissy Spacek, Harry Dean Stanton N2 - Based on a true story about 73-year-old Alvin Straight who embarks on a dangerous and emotional journey to make amends with his 75-year-old estranged brother Lyle who had suffered a stroke. Alvin can no longer drive a car because of his eyesight and has to walk with 2 canes, but he climbs aboard his 1966 John Deere lawnmower with hitched trailer and drives the 260-mile course from Laurens, Iowa to Mt. Zion, Wis ER -