David Byrne
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Oct 10, 1986 · True Stories: Directed by David Byrne. With John Goodman, Annie McEnroe, Jo Harvey Allen, Spalding Gray. 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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- Comedy, Musical
- David Byrne
- 1986-10-10
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.
- October 10, 1986
- Gary Kurfirst
- Sarene Leeds
- Titanic. Released: 1997. Rated: PG-13. Memorable quote: “A woman’s heart is a deep ocean of secrets.” Twenty-five years after its release, our hearts still go on for James Cameron’s Academy Award–winning romantic drama.
- 12 Years a Slave. Released: 2013. Rated: R. Memorable quote: “I don’t want to survive. I want to live.” It is nearly impossible for a movie based on a true story to avoid taking any creative license, but 12 Years a Slave comes very close.
- Argo. Released: 2012. Rated: R. Memorable quote: “This is what I do. I get people out. And I’ve never left anyone behind.” Despite being a gripping spy thriller based on the very real extrication of six American diplomats from Iran in 1980 by CIA operative Tony Mendez (Ben Affleck, who also directed the movie), this film took a lot of creative license.
- Hidden Figures. Released: 2016. Rated: PG. Memorable quote: “On any given day, I analyze the velometer levels for air displacement, friction and velocity. And compute over 10,000 calculations by cosine, square root and lately analytic geometry by hand.”
True Stories movie review & film summary (1986) | Roger Ebert. Reviews. True Stories. Roger Ebert October 31, 1986. Tweet. Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. There are more than 50 sets of twins in David Byrne's "True Stories," I learned by studying the press notes, and perhaps we should pause here for a moment to meditate upon that fact.
Oct 23, 2020. Apr 10, 2020. Rated: 7/10 • Mar 11, 2019. Talking Heads singer David Byrne plays host to this bizarre patchwork of tabloid-inspired tales, set in the fictional town of Virgil, Texas....
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Nov 19, 2020 · Films based on true stories connect us to the past in a visceral way. Here are the 10 best, chosen by TIME staff and a panel of historians.
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