Eine kleine, aber wachsende texanische Stadt, gefüllt mit seltsamen und musikalischen Charakteren, feiert ihr Sesquicentennial und trifft sich zu einer lokalen Parade und Talentshow.Eine kleine, aber wachsende texanische Stadt, gefüllt mit seltsamen und musikalischen Charakteren, feiert ihr Sesquicentennial und trifft sich zu einer lokalen Parade und Talentshow.Eine kleine, aber wachsende texanische Stadt, gefüllt mit seltsamen und musikalischen Charakteren, feiert ihr Sesquicentennial und trifft sich zu einer lokalen Parade und Talentshow.
- Auszeichnungen
- 1 Gewinn & 2 Nominierungen
- Ramon
- (as Humberto 'Tito' Larriva)
- The Little Girl on the Road
- (as Capucine DeWulf)
Handlung
WUSSTEST DU SCHON:
- Wissenswertes50 sets of twins appear in the movie.
- PatzerDisappearing reappearing rearview mirror in the red convertible.
- Zitate
Narrator: I really enjoy forgetting. When I first come to a place, I notice all the little details. I notice the way the sky looks. The color of white paper. The way people walk. Doorknobs. Everything. Then I get used to the place and I don't notice those things anymore. So only by forgetting can I see the place again as it really is.
- Crazy Credits2. Displayed at very end of credits, below the disclaimer: "IF YOU CAN THINK OF IT, IT EXISTS SOMEWHERE"
- Alternative VersionenExtended/re-edited versions of the Wild Wild Life and Love for Sale musical numbers were released as music videos.
- VerbindungenEdited into Talking Heads: Wild Wild Life (1986)
Simultaneously, a number of feature films were also exploring the limits of a dubious sub-style known as faux-documentary. And great or not this fascinating film reworked the possibilities of both long before most of the competition. In essence, this is a very detached take on the musical set in fictional Virgil, Texas a small-but-growing prairie boomtown notable for its antiseptic normality. Each of the principal characters are based upon people Byrne (who co-wrote the screenplay) had read about in tabloid newspapers hence the man so lonely he buys commercial time to advertise himself on TV (John Goodman), the laziest woman in the world (Swoozie Kurtz), the world's worst pathological liar (Jo Harvey Allen), and spectacles like the mall fashion show, where we get to see (among other treats) a 3-piece suit made entirely out of lawn clippings (What?!?! No macramé, velvet paintings, tractor pulls or decoupage?). Byrne who appears as a travel guide/narrator - gently escorts the audience through this offbeat parade, as the varied denizens of Virgil do what they do, occasionally pausing to sing one of the numerous songs (genre exercises well-matched to the characters - watch for a great 'Papa Legba' performed by the late Pops Staples) written by Byrne for the film. At worst, TRUE STORIES could be viewed as the enthusiastic and genuinely inspired work of an ambitious, intellectual urbanite who really, really ought to get out more and Byrne should be credited for not indulging in the sneering, aloof insularity that has occasionally infected more recent films of this variety.
But at best it comes across as a genuine attempt at presenting a unique variety of homegrown, Americana-style surrealism something that might possibly qualify as a specific strand of folk art and culture that would be a rural counterpart to what folks like Keith Haring, Laurie Anderson, Barbara Krueger, Spalding Grey and Byrne were doing in the insular world of Manhattan in the 1980s. TRUE STORIES looks amazing thanks to the sparse cinematography, and Spalding Grey, John Goodman (as Byrne's comic foil) and Pops Staples are all great. A genuinely seminal, if flawed film.
- davidals
- 15. Sept. 2003
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- Erscheinungsdatum
- Herkunftsland
- Sprache
- Auch bekannt als
- Gerçek Hikayeler
- Drehorte
- Allen, Texas, USA(Varicorp assembly line - filmed at InteCom, Inc., which was one of the first technology businesses in Collin County. The building at 33.085068, -96.681706 is now occupied by Experian as of 2018)
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Box Office
- Bruttoertrag in den USA und Kanada
- 2.545.142 $
- Weltweiter Bruttoertrag
- 2.545.459 $
- Laufzeit1 Stunde 29 Minuten
- Farbe
- Seitenverhältnis
- 1.85 : 1