A film about how anger, complacency and alcohol tear apart relationships even between siblings, but also a film about how love and forgiveness can heal wounds.

Alvin is a 73-year-old retired man who lives in Lawrence, Iowa, with his daughter Rose, who is a bit mentally challenged. Being old, Alvin’s health is already quite fragile and worst of all he doesn’t listen to his doctor’s advice because he is quite stubborn.

Despite his poor health, he decides to visit his brother. He learns that he has had a stroke. The problem is that at first he doesn’t know how he is going to do it because his brother lives about 510 km away. In addition, Alvin’s eyes are bad and he no longer has a driver’s license, so he cannot drive a car. The bus service is lousy, so Alvin decides that he has to make the trip another way. He decides to ride a lawnmower.

Along the way he meets a young hitchhiker who has run away from home because she got pregnant and is afraid of how her parents would react, another hysterical young woman who knocks down at least one deer every week on her way to work.

Alvin’s journey is peppered with various other interesting encounters and people’s fates. In the finale, he makes camp near an old cemetery with a church next to it. There he engages in conversation with the local priest, to whom he tells the story of his brother and their relationship.

It becomes clear that Alvin’s journey is not just an ordinary journey to find his brother, but a journey to find forgiveness.

Parents Guide: Saying God’s name in vain 1x.

Cast: Richard Farnsworth, Sissy Spacek, Joseph A. Carpenter, Everett McGill, Harry Dean Stanton, Kevin P. Farley

Crew: David Lynch

USA / France / Great Britain, 1999

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