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The Straight Story

film by Lynch [1999]

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  • David Lynch
    In David Lynch

    …included Lost Highway (1997) and The Straight Story (1999), an unexpectedly simple film based on a true story about an elderly man who rides a lawn mower several hundred miles to visit his brother. In 2001 Lynch wrote and directed Mulholland Drive, a surrealist thriller set in Hollywood that was…

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history of film

  • The Passion of Joan of Arc
    In history of film: United States

    …beyond included Lost Highway (1996), The Straight Story (1999), Mulholland Drive (2001), and Inland Empire (2006). Stone, best known for politically oriented films such as JFK (1991), Nixon (1995), W. (2008), and Snowden (2016), also made

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