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The Straight Story
Why this pick
A gently offbeat road journey where rural landscapes, sparse encounters and patient observation turn masculine reserve into quiet emotional release.
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MOVIE2013 1h 55m USA
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
In 1988, an odd pair of sorts, meditative and stern Alvin (Paul Rudd) and his girlfriend's brother, Lance (Emile Hirsch), dopey and insecure, leave the city behind to spend the summer in solitude repainting traffic lines down the center of a country highway ravaged by wildfire. As they sink into their job in the remarkable landscape, they learn more than they want to about each other and their own limitations. An unlikely friendship develops through humor and nasty exchanges, leading to surprising affection. During their adventure, they meet a drunk truck driver who seems to be unknowing about a woman that enters his truck. But it comes as a metaphor for the pair's own problems with the women in their life.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Paul Rudd
Alvin
Lance LeGault
Truck Driver
Lynn Shelton
Voice of Madison (voice)
Emile Hirsch
Lance