True Stories (1986)
October 10, 1986Release Date
True Stories (1986)
October 10, 1986Release Date
Plot.
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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
David Byrne
Narrator / Lip-Syncher / Writer / Director / Original Music Composer / Songs
John Goodman
Louis Fyne
Annie McEnroe
Kay Culver
Jo Harvey Allen
The Lying Woman
Spalding Gray
Earl Culver
Alix Elias
The Cute Woman
Roebuck 'Pops' Staples
Mr. Tucker
Tito Larriva
Ramon
John Ingle
The Preacher
Matthew Posey
The Computer Guy
Swoosie Kurtz
The Lazy Woman
Amy Buffington
Linda Culver
Richard Dowlearn
Larry Culver
Capucine De Wulf
The Little Girl on the Road
Cynthia Gould
Factory Girl #1
Kelly Wright
Factory Girl #2
Hinpheth Siharath
Laotian Factory Worker
Phyllis Wallace
Woman at Plant
Linda McCauley
Louis' Date at Chinese Restaurant
Marian Henley
Moonstone
Huey P. Meaux
Wild Wild Life Club DJ / VJ
Connie Deaton
Lip-Syncher
Jerry Harrison
Lip-Syncher / Songs
Meredith Zednick
Lip-Syncher
Alonzo Richard
Lip-Syncher
Chrissy Miller
Lip-Syncher
Tony Reynolds
Lip-Syncher
Eric "E.T." Thorngren
Lip-Syncher
Stephen Seybold
Lip-Syncher
Tina Weymouth
Lip-Syncher / Songs
Chris Frantz
Lip-Syncher / Songs
Vangie Barefoot
Lip-Syncher
Keith Algier
Lip-Syncher
Freeman Beatty
Lip-Syncher
Ronna Cohen
Air Band
Rex Taylor Smith
Air Band
Scott Valentine
Air Band
James Jackson
Singing Watchman
Angus G. Wynne III
Dancing Businessman
Cora Cardona
Margie Ortiz
Andrew Barach
Laughing Headline Reader #1
Gregory Gunter
Laughing Headline Reader #2
Ric Spiegel
Passerby in Mall
Tom De Nolf
Friend of Passerby
Ed Geldart
Grandfather in Mall
Ray Coahran
Fashion Show Band
Ken Chambers
Fashion Show Band
Daniel Marder
Fashion Show Band
Bale Allen
Teenage Boy in Field
Liz Moore
Teenage Girl in Field
Jim Colegrove
Gospel Band
Tonney Watts
Gospel Band
Vernon Watts
Gospel Band
Frank Smith
Man in Church
L.T. Felty
Duck Hunter
David Averett
Duck Hunter
Evelyn Box
'Hey Now' Kid
Kevin Box
'Hey Now' Kid
Kenan Crinion
'Hey Now' Kid
Jason Liebrecht
'Hey Now' Kid
William McDaniel
'Hey Now' Kid
Brian Monroe
'Hey Now' Kid
Jessica Pendland
'Hey Now' Kid
Michael Pendland
'Hey Now' Kid
John Pritchett
Sound Man
Esteban Jordan
Dance Club Band / Ramon's Band
Christopher Johnson
Mr. Tucker's Son
Louis Black
The Happy Wanderers Strictly Accordion Marching Band (uncredited)
Chris Douridas
Teenage Boy Ventriloquist (uncredited)
Leesa Rowland
Blonde in Nightclub (uncredited)
Beth Henley
Writer
Stephen Tobolowsky
Writer
Elizabeth McBride
Costume Design
Edward Lachman
Director of Photography
Caroline Biggerstaff
Editor
Barbara Ling
Production Design
Cherylanne Martin
Second Second Assistant Director
Victoria Thomas
Casting
Susan Beeson
Set Decoration
Karen Murphy
Co-Producer
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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 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. 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.