question: Between WALL-E and The Straight Story, which film was released earlier?
answer: The Straight Story
context: Title: Alvin Straight
  Passage: Alvin Boone Straight (October 17, 1920 – November 9, 1996) was an American man who became notable for traveling 240 miles on a riding lawn mower from Laurens, Iowa to Blue River, Wisconsin to visit his ailing brother.  He inspired the 1999 film "The Straight Story".
  Title: Mary Sweeney
  Passage: Mary Sweeney is an American film producer, director, writer and film editor, who collaborated for 20 years with her husband, avant-garde American film director, David Lynch.  Sweeney worked with Lynch on several films and television series, most notably the original "Twin Peaks" series (1990), "Lost Highway" (1997), "The Straight Story", (1999) and "Mulholland Drive" (2001).  Sweeney is the Dino and Martha De Laurentiis Endowed Professor in the Writing Division of the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California.  She is the Chair of the Film Independent Board of Directors.
  Title: List of accolades received by WALL-E
  Passage: "WALL-E" (promoted with an interpunct as "WALL•E") is an American animation film released in 2008 and directed by Andrew Stanton.  Walt Disney Pictures released it in the United States and Canada on June 27, 2008, grossing $23.1 million on its opening day, and $63 million during its opening weekend in 3,992 theaters, ranking number 1 at the box office.  It eventually grossed $223 million domestically and $533 million worldwide.  "WALL-E" was well received, with an approval rating of 96% on the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes.
  Title: Richard Farnsworth
  Passage: Richard W. Farnsworth (September 1, 1920 – October 6, 2000) was an American actor and stuntman.  He is best known for his performances in "The Grey Fox" (1982), for which he received a Golden Globe Award nomination, "Anne of Green Gables" (1985), "Misery" (1990), and "The Straight Story" (1999), for which he received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor.  His sudden death followed a long struggle with prostate cancer.
  Title: The Straight Story
  Passage: The Straight Story is a 1999 internationally co-produced biographical road drama film directed by David Lynch.  The film was edited and produced by Mary Sweeney, Lynch's longtime partner and co-worker.  She co-wrote the script with John E. Roach.  The film is based on the true story of Alvin Straight's 1994 journey across Iowa and Wisconsin on a lawn mower.  Alvin (Richard Farnsworth) is an elderly World War II veteran who lives with his daughter Rose (Sissy Spacek), a kind woman with an intellectual disability.  When he hears that his estranged brother Lyle (Harry Dean Stanton) has suffered a stroke, Alvin makes up his mind to go visit him and hopefully make amends before he dies.  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 110 Lawn Tractor, having a maximum speed of about 5 miles per hour, and sets off on the 240 mile journey from Laurens, Iowa to Mount Zion, Wisconsin.
  Title: Steel Gunner
  Passage: Steel Gunner (スティールガンナー , Sutīru Gannā ) is a first-person shooter arcade game that was released by Namco in 1990; it runs on Namco System 2 hardware, and was the second game from the company to utilize lightguns (the first was "Golly!  Ghost! ", which was released earlier in 1990 and it was also their fourth game to allow scores not ending in "0").  A sequel, Steel Gunner 2, was released in 1991 and the US version of it was also the second game from the company to feature the Federal Bureau of Investigation's "Winners Don't Use Drugs" screen in the attract sequence (the first was "Tank Force", which was released earlier in 1991) - and it would later go on to feature in five more US-released Namco titles.
  Title: Angelo Badalamenti
  Passage: Angelo Badalamenti (born March 22, 1937) is an American composer, best known for his work scoring films for director David Lynch, notably "Blue Velvet", the "Twin Peaks" saga (1990–1992, 2017), "The Straight Story" and "Mulholland Drive".  Badalamenti received the 1990 Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance for his ""Twin Peaks" Theme", and has received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the World Soundtrack Awards and the Henry Mancini Award from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers.
  Title: Dan Flannery
  Passage: Arthur Daniel Flannery (born March 10, 1944) is an American actor from Evanston, Illinois.  He has played roles in several movies, short films, and T.V. shows from a variety of genres including drama, action, and thriller.  His filmography includes The Straight Story (1999), and Contagion (2011) and T.V. series such as Empire (2015 TV series) and Boss (2011-2012).
  Title: Wiley Harker
  Passage: James "Wiley" Harker (January 27, 1915 – May 1, 2007) was an American character actor who portrayed Crane Tolliver in the soap opera "General Hospital" in 1983.  He also played Justice Harold Webb in "First Monday in October" (1981).  He also appeared in "Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead" and "The Straight Story".
  Title: WALL-E
  Passage: WALL-E (stylized with an interpunct as WALL·E) is a 2008 American computer-animated science fiction film produced by Pixar Animation Studios for Walt Disney Pictures.  It was directed and co-written by Andrew Stanton, produced by Jim Morris, and co-written by Jim Reardon.  It stars the voices of Ben Burtt, Elissa Knight, Jeff Garlin, Fred Willard, John Ratzenberger, Kathy Najimy, Sigourney Weaver, and the MacInTalk system, and was the overall ninth feature film produced by the company.  It follows a trash compactor robot in a deserted world, left to clean a largely abandoned city.  However, he is visited by a probe sent by the "Axiom" ship, whom he falls in love with and pursues across the galaxy.
citations: WALL-E The Straight Story