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''True Stories'' is a 1986 American film that spans the genres of musical, art, and comedy, directed by and starring David Byrne of the band Talking Heads. It co-stars John Goodman, Swoosie Kurtz, and Spalding Gray. Byrne has described the film as, "A project with songs based on true stories from tabloid newspapers. It's like ''60 Minutes'' on acid." ''True Stories'' was released by Warner Bros. in the United States, Canada, Italy, and Sweden in 1986, with 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 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, and Terry Allen & The Panhandle Mystery Band, among others. Around the same time, Talking Heads released an album, titled ''True Stories'', which included the band's versions of songs featured in the film. ==Plot summary== The film features 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 Special-ness to mark the sesquicentennial (i.e. 150th) anniversary of the founding of the town and Texas independence from Mexico. The event is being sponsored by the Varicorp Corporation, a local computer manufacturing plant. Byrne's narration often breaks the fourth wall, especially while he is driving around town in his Chrysler LeBaron convertible. At other times, sequences are filmed in a documentary style with Byrne's character as host. Among the unique individuals the stranger meets is: * Louis Fyne, (John Goodman, in one of his first major film roles), a Country-Western-singing clean room technician at Varicorp who is unlucky in love * Civic leader Earl Culver (Spalding Gray), who never speaks directly to his wife, Kay (Annie McEnroe) * Miss Rollings (Swoosie Kurtz), who never leaves her bed * Mr. Tucker (Pops Staples of The Staple Singers), Miss Rollings personal assistant, a voodoo practitioner whom Louis hires to help him find love * A conspiracy theorist preacher (John Ingle) whose shtick owes a great deal to the Church of the SubGenius * Ramon (musician Tito Larriva), who claims telepathic powers * "The Lying Woman" (Jo Harvey Allen), who recounts fantastic episodes from her life to anyone listening. Latin music artist Esteban "Steve" Jordan and his conjunto perform the song "Radio Head" in the film as well. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「True Stories (film)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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