True Stories
Comedy
Music
A Completely Cool, Multi-Purpose Movie.
A small but growing Texas town, filled with strange and musical characters, celebrates its sesquicentennial and converge on a local parade and talent show.
1986-10-10
en
Cast
Director
David Byrne
David Byrne as Narrator / Lip-Syncher
John Goodman as Louis Fyne
Annie McEnroe as Kay Culver
Jo Harvey Allen as The Lying Woman
Spalding Gray as Earl Culver
Alix Elias as The Cute Woman
Roebuck 'Pops' Staples as Mr. Tucker
Tito Larriva as Ramon
John Ingle as The Preacher
Matthew Posey as The Computer Guy
Swoosie Kurtz as The Lazy Woman
Jerry Harrison as Lip-Syncher
Tina Weymouth as Lip-Syncher
Chris Frantz as Lip-Syncher
Scott Valentine as Air Band
Gregory Gunter as Laughing Headline Reader #2
Ed Geldart as Grandfather in Mall
Jason Liebrecht as "Hey Now" Kid
John Pritchett as Sound Man
Louis Black as The Happy Wanderers Strictly Accordion Marching Band (uncredited)
Chris Douridas as Teenage Boy Ventriloquist (uncredited)
Leesa Rowland as Blonde in Nightclub (uncredited)