True Stories (film)

True Stories
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	David Byrne
Written by	Stephen Tobolowsky Beth Henley David Byrne
Produced by	Gary Kurfirst
Starring	John Goodman Annie McEnroe Swoosie Kurtz Spalding Gray Pops Staples Tito Larriva David Byrne
Cinematography	Ed Lachman
Edited by	Caroline Biggerstaff
Music by	Talking Heads
Production company	True Stories Venture
Distributed by	Warner Bros.
Release date	October 10, 1986 (1986-10-10)
Running time	90 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Box office	$2.5 million[1]

True Stories (full onscreen title: True Stories: A Film About a Bunch of People in Virgil Texas.) is a 1986 American satirical musical comedy film directed by David Byrne, who stars alongside John Goodman, Swoosie Kurtz, and Spalding Gray. 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, Terry Allen & The Panhandle Mystery Band, and others. Around the same time, Talking Heads released an album titled True Stories, composed of studio recordings of songs featured in the film.

True Stories was released by Warner Bros. in the United States, Canada, Italy, and Sweden in 1986, and received a 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 resulting film is replete with Byrne's eccentric and idiosyncratic observations of small-town life, exaggerated satirical imagery, and surrealist sense of humor.