David Lynch’s The Straight Story is a quietly old-fashioned masterpiece, a feel-good, down-home celebration of family loyalty, kindness to strangers, the ending of old quarrels, dignity in the face of weakness and frailty, determination, and the wisdom that comes with advanced years. Sweetly gentle, luminously photographed, touchingly homespun, and so heartwarming it’d be corny if it weren’t so completely sincere, this is the kind of movie I’m tempted to say they don’t make any more, except I’m not sure they ever did make anything quite like this.

Additional resources for this entry:

• Decent Films review
• Cinema in Focus review of this film.
• Looking Closer review by Jeffrey Overstreet.
• IMDB listing for this film.

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