The Straight Story.

Synopsis:
Alvin Straight, an elderly man who lives with his daughter, Rose ("some people call her slow..."), travels across several states (probably - my knowledge of American geography is laughable) on a lawnmower to patch things up with his brother, Lyle, who's just had a stroke.

Review:
It's a David Lynch film, but it's not wierd. Which is, quite frankly, disconcerting. It's also Disney, which is just frightening. I switched on the TV, and the words 'Walt Disney productions present a David Lynch film' made me need chocolate cake.

It's your standard family-type, feel-good, lovable characters behaving in delightfully eccentric fashions kinda movie. I hate that kind of movie, but this one wasn't too bad. Some bits were very predictable (the hitch-hiker), whereas others were more unexpected (the deer lady). All-in-all, none of the strange events which transpired along the way had any connection to each other or to the ultimate outcome. Which made it easy to nip out for snacks, and now I can't help feeling that I'm not treating the movie seriously enough - maybe I've missed something, but it struck me as nothing more than your average 'awww, look at the sweet old man, kids' sort of thing, which isn't what you expect from a filmmaker of Lynch's reputation and back catalogue. So maybe I've missed something fairly fundamental, and as a consequence have entirely bypassed the point. Or maybe it is just a simple little movie, and I'm trying to read too much into it just because I really like amazingly fucked up movies...

Anyway, it was quite good. I liked it, although I won't be re-watching it in the immediate future.