Film

Plain Talk and Common Sense (uncommon senses)

1987 · 1h 50m · Documentary

IMDb

7.4

Plain Talk is a complex essay-film, a follow-up a decade and some years later to Speaking Directly, and so another State of the Nation discourse, made for Britain's Channel Four in the year 1986-87. The work involved extensive travel around the United States, and poses an examination of just what America is/was, or what do we mean when we speak of it. Done in a series of radically different sections which collide with each other in a manner intended to provoke thinking, Plain Talk, which was made by an American and intended for American viewers, was indeed broadcast in Britain, but somewhat predictably, not in the USA.

• Jon JostProducer · Editor · Director · Writer · Director of Photography
• Jon A. EnglishOriginal Music Composer

Release date

September 6, 1987

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

1h 50m

Genres

Documentary