Is The Straight Story actually good?

The Straight Story sits in the 92.6% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 92.6% of them.

How does The Straight Story compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1990s, The Straight Story lands in the 94.6% percentile. The cohort comparison exists because a global rank flatters or punishes a film for its category rather than its quality.

How many reviewers is The Straight Story's score based on?

360 calibrated reviewers stand behind The Straight Story's score.

1999

global pct

92.6

Film · 1999 · Films · 1990s

The Straight Story

Name: The Straight Story
Genre: Biography, Drama
Released: 1999

Scored from 360 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).

92.6%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

94.6%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles

99.5%

AI-adjusted percentile

360 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Elderly Iowan Alvin Straight, frail and unable to drive a car, learns his estranged brother has had a stroke. Determined to reconcile before it is too late, he sets off on a slow, solitary journey across hundreds of miles aboard a riding lawnmower, meeting a series of strangers along the way. Based on a true story, the film is a quiet meditation on aging, family, and forgiveness.

Released in 1999, The Straight Story is a biography and drama film.

The cohort it is ranked inside is 1990s films — 4,082 of them. The calibrated figure is built from 360 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 377 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.

Is The Straight Story (1999) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 360
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1990s

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