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True Stories

1986, Movie, PG, 89 mins

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David Byrne, then the front man for the Talking Heads, makes his feature film directorial debut with a deliciously offbeat and affectionate look at American madness. Byrne himself plays the narrator, a friendly outsider every bit as strange as the oddball characters he observes. Wearing a large cowboy hat, he talks to the camera as he drives along in a big red convertible. Virtually plotless, the film follows Byrne as he takes us on a tour of Virgil, Texas, and its inhabitan... read more leave a comment
Year: 1986
Rated PG

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Cast
David Byrne: Narrator
John Goodman: Louis Fyne
Swoosie Kurtz: Miss Rollings
Spalding Gray: Earl Culver
Alix Elias: The Cute Woman
Annie McEnroe: Kay Culver

 

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