The top mistakes in The Straight Story http://www.moviemistakes.com/film1565 en Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:55:13 +0000 104702 In one scene Alvin is driving over a bridge on the Mississippi. He is going in to Prarie Du Chine but the bridge is in a different town, and he is going from east to west not west to east. The town he is driving into is Lansing, Iowa. 15072 When Alvin Straight is going back to fetch his hat, there is a pillow on the seat of his lawnmower. When he returns, it is gone.