True Stories

True Stories
Customer Review: Good Music, Good Movie
First of all, this is NOT a concert flick. Set in the 1986 Texas Sesquicentennial celebration in a small Texas town, True Stories is a very funny character study of several eccentrics. David Byrne is the narrator and a character as well. The understated yet over-the-top humor reminds me of Napoleon Dynamite without as much gross-out content. This is my second copy of this movie: I bought it and showed it to my teenaged kids who liked it enough they borrowed it and never brought it back...
Customer Review: 3 stars out of 4
The Bottom Line: A thoroughly wacky and off-the-wall movie, True Stories often seems like an excursion into the mind of offbeat Talking Heads lead singer David Byrne; the movie features a couple good musical sequences but is overall not a terribly cohesive film.