The Straight Story
Mary Sweeney
['paul czinner', 'dinesh babu', 'will hay', 'rasu madhuravan', 'nigel balchin', 'peter facinelli', 'terry gilliam', 'simon pegg', 'dwarakish', 'alexandre rockwell', 'charles marquis warren', 'ben stassen', 'john greyson', 'del tenney', 'jack london', 'sebastian gutierrez', 'antonio capuano', 'neeraj vora', 'fassbinder', 'peyo', 'george du maurier', 'william shakespeare', 'billy bob thornton', 'anthony kimmins', 'gordon mitchell', 'duniya soori', 'rodney dangerfield', 'samir karnik', 'johnny carpenter', 'quentin tarantino', 'jun maeda', 'hannah fidell', 'agathiyan', 'dylan', 'william makepeace thackeray', 'hrishikesh mukherjee', 'paul naschy', 'john hamburg', 'woody allen', 'gary cooper', 'stanley tucci', 'adam horowitz', 'yash chopra', 'michael palin', 'king vidor', 'mannus franken', 'lo lieh', 'susi ganesan', 'albert parker', 'patrick melton', 'ranald macdougall', 'rick moranis', 'julie brown', 'neal purvis', 'paul gallico', 'hemingway', 'andjar', 'fruit chan', 'thornton wilder', 'ermanno olmi', 'john william corrington', 'wes hurley', 'steve buscemi', 'shaji kailas', 'joseph wambaugh', 'jean giraudoux', 'kiyoshi kurosawa', 'stefan zweig', 'tom mix', 'soori', 'david wain', 'mahesh bhatt', 'dhundiraj govind phalke', 'pablo trapero', 'terry george', 'robert aldrich', 'ruth prawer jhabvala', 'umesh mehra', 'anil sharma', 'matt damon', 'charles crichton', 'gary david goldberg', 'jonathan caouette', 'gore vidal', 'aaron springer', 'ernesto guevara', 'ernst lubitsch', 'ennio flaiano', 'ralph nelson', 'spalding gray', 'guru dutt', 'george lucas', 'michael hurst', 'warren beatty', 'bitto albertini', 'coline serreau', 'ian mcewan', 'steve antin', 'anthony shaffer']
John E. Roach
John Roach is an Emmy Award-winning television and film producer and screenwriter. He is president of JRP, a video production and film production company based in Madison, Wisconsin. John and Mary Sweeney co-wrote the screenplay for “The Straight Story,” a motion picture directed by David Lynch. “The Straight Story” premiered at Cannes and was released in October 1999 by Walt Disney Pictures. The screenplay was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award, and the film’s Richard Farnsworth received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. “Like Hemingway’s dialogue,” wrote Roger Ebert, “the screenplay by John Roach and Mary Sweeney finds poetry and truth in the exact choice of the right everyday words.”