True Stories (1986)

Directed by

David Byrne

Genre

comedy film, musical film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 30m

Rated

PG

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 141 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A visitor passes through a small Texas town and meets its collection of unusual residents. The film is a series of loosely connected vignettes about the townspeople's everyday lives and peculiarities.

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What happens

True Stories (full onscreen title: True Stories: A Film About a Bunch of People in Virgil Texas.) is a 1986 American satirical musical comedy film directed by David Byrne, who stars alongside John Goodman, Swoosie Kurtz, and Spalding Gray. The majority of the film's music is supplied by rock band Talking Heads. A soundtrack album, titled Sounds from True Stories, featured songs by Byrne, Talking Heads, Terry Allen & the Panhandle Mystery Band, and others. Around the same time, Talking Heads released an album titled True Stories, composed of studio recordings of songs featured in the film. True Stories was released by Warner Bros. Pictures in the United States, Canada, Italy, and Sweden in 1986, and received a limited release elsewhere the following year. Byrne was given much creative control over the motion picture's direction, largely due to the mainstream success of Talking Heads' 1984 concert film Stop Making Sense. The resulting film is replete with Byrne's eccentric and idiosyncratic observations of small-town life, exaggerated satirical imagery, and surrealist sense of humor. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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