Alvin Straight is not the twisted David Lynch character audiences expected… he’s a well-adjusted old Iowan with the same kinds of regrets that most people have. Taken from a true story, Alvin can’t drive and hasn’t much money, but he undertakes an eccentric Odyssey that in different circumstances might get him committed. And there’s the rub — his ‘impossible’ 5 mph trek across Iowa becomes a voyage of affirmation. Lynch is no cheater: we may expect bloody disaster but he instead gives us a statement about common decency and goodwill from his own Midwestern roots. This one movie will lower your blood pressure by 10 points.
The Straight Story
Region Free Blu-ray
Viavision [Imprint] 61
1999 / Color / 2:39 widescreen / 112 min. / Street Date August 25, 2021 / Available from / 39.95au
Starring: Richard Farnsworth, Sissy Spacek, Dan Flannery, Everett McGill, Barbara Robertson, James Cada, Sally Wingert, Kevin P. Farley, John Farley, John Lordan, Russ Reed, Harry Dean Stanton.
The Straight Story
Region Free Blu-ray
Viavision [Imprint] 61
1999 / Color / 2:39 widescreen / 112 min. / Street Date August 25, 2021 / Available from / 39.95au
Starring: Richard Farnsworth, Sissy Spacek, Dan Flannery, Everett McGill, Barbara Robertson, James Cada, Sally Wingert, Kevin P. Farley, John Farley, John Lordan, Russ Reed, Harry Dean Stanton.
- 9/21/2021
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
The full moon shone over the ocean at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center during its 50th Anniversary Gala July 11. It was a fitting coincidence, as actors Reed Birney and Sally Wingert performed a stirring reading of a play set right there in O’Neill’s New London, Conn., neighborhood: “A Moon for the Misbegotten.” “We knew that we had two really special actors who really wanted to do that scene, and we had a full moon outside,” said Gregg Wiggans, artistic associate for the National Playwright Conference and director of the gala’s entertainment. “It’s special to George C. White, that particular play. So it’s as much a gift for him as it was for everyone else.” It was 50 years ago that White discovered what some of the country’s best theater artists now refer to simply as “the O’Neill.” Passing by on a boat, White...
- 7/14/2014
- backstage.com
The Guthrie Theater presents the world premiere of the bittersweet romance The Primrose Path by Crispin Whittell based upon the novel Home of the Gentry by Ivan Turgenev. The production will be directed by Roger Rees and will feature actors Kyle Fabel Broadway The Farnsworth Invention Off-Broadway A Free Man of Color as Theodore Lavretsky, Suzy Kohane Acadia Repertory Theatre University of MinnesotaGuthrie Bfa Actor Training Program as Liza and Sally Wingert BroadwayWest End, London La Bete Guthrie Other Desert Cities, Appomattox as Maria.
- 5/3/2013
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
The Guthrie Theater presents the world premiere of the bittersweet romance The Primrose Path by Crispin Whittell based upon the novel Home of the Gentry by Ivan Turgenev. The production will be directed by Roger Rees and will feature actors Kyle Fabel Broadway The Farnsworth Invention Off-Broadway A Free Man of Color as Theodore Lavretsky, Suzy Kohane Acadia Repertory Theatre University of MinnesotaGuthrie Bfa Actor Training Program as Liza and Sally Wingert BroadwayWest End, London La Bete Guthrie Other Desert Cities, Appomattox as Maria.
- 4/27/2013
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
The Guthrie Theater today announced complete casting for its world premiere of the bittersweet romance The Primrose Path by Crispin Whittell based upon the novel Home of the Gentry by Ivan Turgenev. The production will be directed by Roger Rees and will feature actors Kyle Fabel Broadway The Farnsworth Invention Off-Broadway A Free Man of Color as Theodore Lavretsky, Suzy Kohane Acadia Repertory Theatre University of MinnesotaGuthrie Bfa Actor Training Program as Liza and Sally Wingert BroadwayWest End, London La Bete Guthrie Other Desert Cities, Appomattox as Maria.
- 3/1/2013
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
The Guthrie Theater today announced complete casting for its production of Jon Robin Baitz's Other Desert Cities. The production will be directed by Peter Rothstein and will feature actors Sally Wingert BroadwayWest End, London La Bte, Guthrie Appomattox, Charley's Aunt as Polly Wyeth, Michelle Barber Guthrie Roman Holiday, Caroline, or Change as Silda Grauman and David Anthony Brinkley Guthrie Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Scottsboro Boys as Lyman Wyeth in a contemporary and politically charged dramedy by the acclaimed playwright whose television credits include the compelling dramas Brothers and Sisters and The West Wing.
- 1/8/2013
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Veteran Guthrie actors Sally Wingert and Richard Ooms team with director Rob Melrose for Samuel Beckett's masterful two-character drama Happy Days. The production, which serves as the Dowling Studio debut for both actors, begins previews February 14, opens February 18 and plays through March 8, 2009. Single tickets are priced from $18 to $30, with opening night priced at $34. Tickets are now on sale through the Guthrie Box Office at 612.377.2224, toll-free 877.44.Stage, 612.225.6244 (Group Sales) and online at http://www.guthrietheater.org/. This intense and strictly concentrated two-character drama features an eternally optimistic Winnie inexplicably buried waist-deep in a mound of earth, clinging to her life of arbitrary routines and rituals. Her husband, Willie, appears from time to time and replies only occasionally to her cheerful chatter, a source of comfort as she remains ever hopeful that "this is going to be a happy day." With its vivid sense of the bizarre and a blend of humor and compassion,...
- 2/16/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
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