This may seem like a radical change of direction for director David Lynch (Twin Peaks, Eraserhead, Blue Velvet) but look closely and you'll still see signs of his trademark eccentricity in this quirky little true story. Veteran stuntman Richard Farnsworth plays crabby old bugger Alvin Straight, who, wanting to visit his ailing brother, sets off on a 300 mile journey through several American states on a lawnmower. Yes, that's right, a lawnmower. And that really is about it. There are no plot twis find out more...

Following an early and promising political career, Franklin Roosevelt, the only US president to be elected three times, was stricken with polio at 39 years of age. This film follows his struggle with paralysis, the refuge he took in an obscure and run-down Georgia health spa, the place in which he found the opportunity for peace, solace and the will to continue, and the family pressure to return to public life and politics. Perhaps the most significant battle he fought with the stigma of paralys find out more...