- Award Snub: While Farnsworth earned a well-deserved Best Actor nomination, this movie didn't earn any other nomination for the Oscars, which is a darn shame considering this was David Lynch directing an acclaimed and accessible film that still deployed his unique visual style. Got snubbed for Cinematography, musical score, screenplay, and for Sissy Spacek's performance. Although the score did get a Golden Globe nomination.
- Awesome Music: Really, the entire score by Angelo Badalamenti, but particularly Laurens Walking
. There's a reason it was nominated for a Golden Globe. - Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: Alvin's encounter with a crazily distraught woman who keeps on accidentally running over deer. While it arguably fits with the film's overall theme of mortality, the only thing it really adds to the film is that Alvin eats the deer and mounts the antlers on his tractor. For viewers familiar with Lynch though, this scene is one of the few indicators that Lynch was directing the movie.
- Funny Moments:
- The blurb on the back of the DVD cover: "The Sweetest and Most Compassionate Movie Lynch Has Ever Made." *
- One of the few examples in the film itself is the distraught woman who keeps accidentally running over deer.
- Memetic Mutation: The Gay Story Explanation
- One-Scene Wonder: Lyle is only in the final scene, but it's the most important scene in the film, as his appearance recontextualises the entire story up to that point.
- What Do You Mean, It's Not for Kids?: It may be rated G and distributed by Disney, but chances are most kids would be bored to tears by this movie due to its slow pacing, more mature themes about family and the inevitability of death. As a story of a sick old man, traveling hundreds of miles on his lawnmower to reconcile with his estranged brother, it's been described as a David Lynch film one could take one's parents to.
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