Straight

In 1987, five young men, using brutally honest rhymes and hardcore beats, put their frustration and anger about life in the most dangerous place in America into the most powerful weapon they had: their music. Taking us back to where it all began, Straight Outta Compton tells the true story of how these cultural rebels-armed only with their lyrics, swagger, bravado and raw talent-stood up to the authorities that meant to keep them down and formed the world's most dangerous group, N.W.A. And as they spoke the truth that no one had before and exposed life in the hood, their voice ignited a social revolution that is still reverberating today.

The group NWA emerges from the mean streets of Compton in Los Angeles, California, in the mid-1980s and revolutionizes Hip Hop culture with their music and tales about life in the hood.

A metà degli anni 80, quando le strade di Compton, California erano alcune delle più pericolose del paese, cinque ragazzi decidono di tradurre le loro esperienze di vita in una musica onesta e brutale. Una musica che si ribella contro gli abusi dell'autorità, dando voce ad una generazione rimasta in silenzio. Seguendo la fulminea ascesa e caduta degli NWA, Straight Outta Compton, racconta la stupefacente storia di come questi giovani hanno rivoluzionato la musica e la cultura pop per sempre nel momento in cui hanno raccontato al mondo la verità sulla vita "incappucciata”, accendendo il fuoco di una guerra culturale.

A metà degli anni 80, quando le strade di Compton, California erano alcune delle più pericolose del paese, cinque ragazzi decidono di tradurre le loro esperienze di vita in una musica onesta e brutale. Una musica che si ribella contro gli abusi dell'autorità, dando voce ad una generazione rimasta in silenzio. Seguendo la fulminea ascesa e caduta degli NWA, Straight Outta Compton, racconta la stupefacente storia di come questi giovani hanno rivoluzionato la musica…

The Straight Story chronicles a trip made by 73-year-old Alvin Straight from Laurens, Iowa, to Mt. Zion, Wis., in 1994 while riding a lawn mower. The man undertook his strange journey to mend his relationship with his ill, estranged, 75-year-old brother Lyle.

Scared Straight! is a 1978 documentary directed by Arnold Shapiro. Narrated by Peter Falk, the subject of the documentary is a group of juvenile delinquents and their three-hour session with actual convicts. Filmed at Rahway State Prison, a group of inmates known as the "lifers" berate, scream at, and terrify the young offenders in an attempt to "scare them straight" (hence the film's title), so that those teenagers will avoid prison life. The documentary aired on television in the late 1970s, uncensored; it marked the first time that the profane words "fuck" and "shit" were broadcast on many networks.

Alvin Straight (Richard Farnsworth) is an elderly World War II veteran who lives with his daughter Rose (Sissy Spacek), a kind woman with a mental disability. When he hears that his estranged brother Lyle (Harry Dean Stanton) has suffered a stroke, he makes up his mind to go visit him and hopefully make amends before he dies. But because Alvin's legs and eyes are too impaired for him to receive a driving license, he hitches a trailer to his recently purchased thirty year-old John Deere Lawn tractor and sets off on the 240-mile journey from Laurens, Iowa to Mount Zion, Wisconsin. The film follows the story of Alvin's six-week journey across rural America, the people he meets, his impact on their lives, and theirs on his. It has been called a modern odyssey of a man dealing with his own mortality and mistakes and the lasting bonds of family.