True Stories 1986 123movies

Watch: True Stories 1986 123movies, Full Movie Online – David Byrne of Talking Heads fame visits a typical (and fictional) Texas town, on the eve of the town’s celebration of the state’s sesquicentennial. He meets various colorful local characters, most notably Lewis Fyne, a big-hearted bachelor in search of matrimony..
Plot: 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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Ratings:

	7.2/10 Votes: 6,790
	79% | RottenTomatoes
	67/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 92 Popularity: 6.339 | TMDB

Reviews:

One of the most surreal comedies I’ve ever seen
Here’s an everyday scenario: popular musician tries to make a movie, the movie either sucks or is about one of their various tours. Justin Bieber, Vanilla Ice, and the list goes on. The point is, musicians, as talented as they may be in the fields of music, don’t typically make for good filmmakers, actors, or camera material in general. Now enter David Byrne. A good majority of strange 80s’ pop can be considered to be by David Byrne or inspired by his works in some ways. Talking Heads may be not for everyone, but there’s no denying their music often has a strange and upbeat charm to it. This leads me to Byrne’s feature film, True Stories.

Words cannot truly describe this film. I don’t know if I can really call it a film because it has no real plot structure to it, but whatever it is, it sure is something. If I had one word to truly describe what this movie is in a nutshell, it’s surreal. Not a whole lot makes sense, the monologues are beautiful in just how nonsensical they can get, and yet there’s no denying that it’s well done. The performances, for as absurd as they can get, do great at portraying the types of wacky characters that inhabit this piece. The cinematography, itself, is not awful nor is it amazing. For a film made by someone who has had their main career in music, Byrne’s directorial debut is fairly solid.

As with the music by Talking Heads, True Stories is a light, but enjoyable, experience. There’s nothing too pretentious here (although I typically hate that term and every dudebro that uses it to exhaustion), and it’s charming in just how unusual it is. I mean this in the most sincere of ways, True Stories is definitely up there with some of the more absurd films I’ve ever seen. Although it won’t be everyone’s slice of pie, it’s worth seeing just to see how far they’ll go. In other words, it’s brilliant.

A very unique movie, and at times also a very good one
This is “True Stories”, an American (very!) English-language movie from 1986, so this one is already easily over 30 years old and the director here is Scottish musician David Byrne, band leader from Talking Heads, and you could say this is his tribute not only to his band, but also to the state of Texas. Byrne also writes and plays a central character here. Well, is it a central character, perhaps in terms of screen time, but really he is just a witness to all the other characters. We don’t know much about him other than that the car is his. It is much more about the people he meets on his journey through a town that celebrates its 150th anniversary. And as we witness the cleebrations, we get to know a handful quirky oddball characters from the place, people that are despite some of their mannerisms as normal as it gets. It is a contradiction I know, but it is what it is. maybe you need to have at least one little spleen that sets you apart from the rest and maybe having this spleen is what makes you normal. The character at the center of it all is played by John Goodman and he is also by far the most known cast member in these 1.5 hours. He plays a simple worker who enjoys spending time on stage singing most of the time, sometimes lighter material, sometimes more serious material and his big goal throughout the entire film is finding his significant other. He is maybe not the most memorable character though. That could be the lady who is rich enough not to leave her bed. How clean it is downstairs in her house and if the cleaning lady does a good job, she can only tell from hearsay. Then there is this couple who only talk through her children. Then there is the woman who clearly makes stories up all the time about Elvis, about Rambo and about many others as she clearly likes being in the limelight and who knows, maybe people even believe her from time to time. Or the Black voodoo practitioner, well this one was not as interesting to me as everybody else I must say.

But i sure enjoyed the film overall. The proportion between music and story feels perfect and I was pretty curious to see what these characters would do next and of course if Goodman finds his girl. It is definitely a lighter film, but that does not mean it isn’t deeper. If you look for drama and in-depth character studies, you will find them. You only need to keep your eyes open. The best example is how the parents react when they see that little puppet presentation at the end and they realize they see themselves in there. I think at times this was even a great movie. I cannot deny I absolutely enjoyed Byrne’s presence here and it was a shame he was not to be seen that frequent anymore as he left the stage to his characters eventually. But his narration and speaking style felt so soothing and interesting at the same time even that I find it a pity that basically all his acting credits here on imdb almost are music videos. A definite contender for playing the most chill character in film history. He was amazing to an extent where I would have been fine for him to receive a Supporting Oscar nomination, also to honor his involvement in all the other fields he worked on in this film. Well, he didn’t get it of course, but he won the Oscar not much later in the Score category and I am glad to see he did. Perhaps this was the most creative phase of his life. Now back to this film, I also kinda liked the music. Not always, but most of it. My favorite song was Wild Wild Life early on already and even that song was pretty much calm and soothing (despite the title) like everything else about this film. So it was a close call at times for me if i would give 4 or 3 stars out of 5 here, but eventually I went for the latter because the second half did not convinve me as much. In general, I could say that the exact celebrations did not exactly wow me. This refers to the fashion show, these fast-speaking men or also most of the other on-stage moments. But it is a film as harmless as it gets. The people in here are really normal, all trying to find their own little share of happiness and all likable too. There is nothing serious happening in here. Even when we see the young woman falling down because of her heavy costume apparently, we don’t see the fall precisely, but just how the host sees it we see the latter’s face. And we hear right afterwards that nothing serious happened at all. By the way, I quite liked the cowboy outfits on Byrne especially here, but also on Goodman in the end. Okay, I think I probably forgot at least 10 additional aspects I wanted to write about, but when the film was over one woman next to me said that she had never watched a movie like this and this can certainly be seen as a compliment. It was really enjoyable and extremely funny during its best moments. It was a one-time showing here in a local theater again and I am glad I went for it after some initial hesitation. It is not necessarily a film that is infinitely better on the big screen than on the small screen because the visual side is just one reason why it succeeds, but not the biggest, let alone only reason, but it was still kinda fun to see it there at the theater as this chance may perhaps never come again. I give it a thumbs-up, without the slightest bit of hesitation. The only hesitation I got is when answering the question if it is a good or great movie. Don’t miss out!

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 29 min (89 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated PG
Genre Comedy, Musical
Director David Byrne
Writer Stephen Tobolowsky, Beth Henley, David Byrne
Actors David Byrne, John Goodman, Annie McEnroe
Country United States
Awards 1 win & 2 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Stereo (as Dolby System)
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera Moviecam Camera
Laboratory DuArt Film Laboratories Inc., New York, USA (processing)
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm