The Straight Story - David Lynch's "Most Experimental" Film & The Only One He Didn't Write Himself
Lynch is the master of the eery, absurd, surreal dream film, but he himself says that his most "experimental" film is "The Straight Story," a film that's ostensibly about a kind, elderly gentleman slowly riding his lawn mower across the country to see his brother.
Maybe for David Lynch this was experimental though because he had none of his usual tools of insanity and chaos to draw from?
CREATIVES:
Director: David Lynch
Writers: John Roach and Mary Sweeney
Producers: Mary Sweeney and Neal Edelstein
Composer: Angelo Badalamenti
Cinematographer: Freddie Francis
Editor: Mary Sweeney
CAST:
Richard Farnsworth as Alvin Straight
Sissy Spacek as Rose Straight
Harry Dean Stanton as Lyle Straight
Jane Galloway Heitz as Dorothy
Joseph A. Carpenter as Bud
Donald Wiegert as Sig
Ed Grennan as Pete
Jack Walsh as Apple
James Cada as Danny Riordan
Wiley Harker as Verlyn Heller
Kevin Farley as Harald Olsen
John Farley as Thorvald Olsen
Anastasia Webb as Crystal
Barbara Robertson as Deer Woman
CREW:
Production Designer: Jack Fisk
Costume Designer: Amy Stofsky
Casting: Johanna Ray and Elaine J. Huzzar
Art Direction: Christy Wilson
Set Decoration: Barbara Haberecht
Sound Design: David Lynch
SOUND DESIGN (FOR PODCAST) ATTRIBUTION:
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