True Stories (1986)

Directors

David Byrne

Cast

David Byrne, John Goodman, Annie McEnroe, Spalding Gray, Swoosie Kurtz, Alix Elias, Jo Harvey Allen, John Ingle, Roebuck 'Pops' Staples, Tito Larriva

The story

The film is presented as a series of vignettes centered around Byrne as an unnamed, cowboy-hat-wearing stranger who visits the fictional Texas town of Virgil, where he observes the citizens as they prepare for the "Celebration of Specialness" to mark the 150th anniversary of Texas' independence. The event is being sponsored by the Varicorp Corporation, a local computer manufacturing plant. Among the many characters the visitor meets and interacts with, the most prominent are: Louis Fyne, a country-western-singing clean room technician at Varicorp who is unlucky in love Civic leader Earl Culver, who never speaks directly to his wife, Kay…

Genres

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