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True Stories(Movie, 1986)

FSK: 6+ years
| 1h 29min | Genres: Comedy, Music
True StoriesRating: 3.4/5 (with 4747 votes)
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 By... ()
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About True Stories

A small but growing Texas town, filled with strange and musical characters, celebrates its sesquicentennial and converge on a local parade and talent show.

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Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)
Plays in: Texas
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN), Spanish (ES), Portuguese (PT)
Translated into 8 languages: Bulgarian (BG), German (DE), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Japanese (JA), Korean (KO), Portuguese (PT), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date DE: 03/05/1987 (World premiere: 10/10/1986)
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"Historias verdaderas"
"デイヴィッド・バーンのトゥルー・ストーリー"
"トゥルー・ストーリー"
"True Stories: A Film About a Bunch of People in Virgil Texas"

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