True Stories
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Actor: Amy Buffington, Evelyn Box, Freeman Beatty, Jo Harvey Allen, Kevin BoxBrand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: Pan & Scan, 1.33:1
Running Time: 89 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1999-03-30
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Warner Home Video
Movie Reviews of True Stories
Movie Review: Widescreen version now, please
Summary: 5 Stars
Brilliant and only gets better with time.
A widescreen release is imperative if we are to remain viable as a species.
Summary of True Stories
David byrne of talking heads fame visits a typical (and fictional) texas town on the eve of the towns celebration of the states sesquicentennial Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 02/03/2004 Starring: John Goodman Spalding Gray Run time: 89 minutes Rating: Pg Director: David ByrneTruly quirky, this mock documentary is part musical, part farce, and completely, oddly innocent. This is a one-man-band job for David Byrne (lead singer of the Talking Heads), who writes, stars, and directs, It's ostensibly about the sesquicentennial celebration of a small Texas town, but it's really about strange characters and strange attitudes. Byrne is our guide, driving us around and giving tour information about Texas in an innocuous patter, frequently running into Louis Fyne (John Goodman), a lonely man looking for love. At various times, and with little provocation, the film swoons into a Talking Heads number with preachers and bar patrons belting out tunes. If you make room for it, however, True Stories can surprise and delight with its inventiveness and its unconventional treatment of the residents. A scene in which a construction worker launches into an aria, on a makeshift stage when no one else is around, is but one example of numerous such moments in this bizarre, delightful, and benign film. Any Talking Heads fan who doesn't own it should. --Keith Simanton
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