True Stories (1986)
by David Byrne
by David Byrne
Movie Trailer: True Stories (1986), PG ‧1986 ‧ Cult/Indie film ‧ 1h 30m
Talking Heads singer David Byrne plays host to this bizarre
patchwork of tabloid-inspired tales, set in the fictional town of
Virgil, Texas. Cruising the streets in his cherry-red drop-top, Byrne
introduces viewers to the local eccentrics gearing up for the town's
150th anniversary. They include a community leader
(Spalding Gray) with a thing for veggies, a woman (Swoosie Kurtz) so
lazy she won't leave her bed, a lovelorn country singer (John Goodman)
and more!
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True Stories was released by Warner Bros. in the United States, Canada, Italy, and Sweden in 1986, with 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. |
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