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Name: True Stories
Released: 1986-10-10
Cast: John Goodman, Annie McEnroe, Swoosie Kurtz, Spalding Gray, Pops Staples

True Stories

PG
1h 30m
1986

79%

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David Byrne, leader of the innovative rock group Talking Heads, whimsically pays homage to the mythical small Texas town of Virgil, a town populated by honest, sometimes slightly askew, people living out their lives and dreams in innocent dignity.

Director:

David Byrne

Producer:

Gary Kurvirst

Writer:

Steven Tobolowsky, Beth Henley, David Byrne

Cast:

John Goodman, Annie McEnroe, Swoosie Kurtz, Spalding Gray, Pops Staples, Tito Larriva, David Byrne

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

79%

Critics Consensus: Its kitschy leanings may wear thin on some, but True Stories is a disarmingly big-hearted, dreamy vision of Americana.

Reviews

The Spool

Peter Sobczynski

I still find True Stories to be an endearingly weird and charming film that still holds up pretty well today.

It would be queasily, dishonestly wholesome if it weren't a) so much fun-the surrealist fashion show! "Wild Wild Life"!, and also b) so penetrating, so willing to expose while still giving the benefit of the doubt.

October 23, 2020

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El Pais (Spain)

Ángel Fernández-Santos

An organic mixture of poetry and irony, tenderness and sharpness, and a sense of the ordinary and the incredible. [Full Review in Spanish]

Byrne brings [his] big-hearted love of the nakedly quotidian to his first directorial effort...

What makes True Stories so wildly different from the dream-visions of all the quirky and hip directors who followed its example is its vehement refusal to condescend to or mock the people on screen.

February 26, 2019

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