it take patience to get through david lynch eccentric and but for a change life affirm chronicle of alvin straight journey and but stick with it . though it move as slow a straight john deere and when he meet the kind stranger along his pilgrimage we learn much about the isolation of age and the painful regret and secret and and ultimately the power of family and reconciliation . richard farnsworth cap his career with the year most genuine performance and sad and poetic and flinty and care . and sissy spacek match him a his slow daughter rise who pin over her own private loss while care for dad . rarely have a modern film preach so positively about family .