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Four interconnected stories set in 1987 Oakland, CA. will tell about the love of music, movies, people, places and memories ...
A love letter to the Bay Area set during the second Reagan administration, “Freaky Tales” premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film ...
It’s infectious, the love “Freaky Tales” has for the Oakland, California, of the mid-1980s. You need not have grown up then and there — as one of the film’s co-writers and -directors ...
Freaky Tales is an American action-comedy anthology film comprising four stories taking place in Oakland in 1987. The stories refer to real-life incidents that took place at the time. Written and ...
It’s infectious, the love “Freaky Tales” has for the Oakland, California, of the mid-1980s. You need not have grown up then and there — as one of the film’s writers and directors ...
In the film, “Set in 1987 Oakland, Freaky Tales is a multi-track mixtape of colorful characters—an NBA star, a corrupt cop, a female rap duo, teen punks, neo-Nazis, and a debt collector ...
Boden and Fleck were inspired to include Hanks because of a 2020 mural painted by Oakland artists featuring the Oscar winner and Too Short. “Freaky Tales” isn’t perfect – had Hanks shown ...
Set in 1987, Oakland, Freaky Tales is an anthology film directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck. The film premiered at the 2024 Sundance Festival and was released in theaters on April 4, 2025.
“Freaky Tales,” a choppy curio from the writing ... that gild facts into myth. “Oakland in ’87 was hella wild,” gloats rapper Too Short, the film’s narrator. Too Short is onscreen ...
Describe This Movie In One The Decline of Western Civilization Quote: WAYNE MAYOTTE: It's - it's an energy outlet. They're really nice kids. They just have to be doing something different.
The feature-length anthology “Freaky Tales” is joyfully anchored in a specific time and place: It’s 1987 Oakland, Calif., where we’re told there’s a cosmic green glow that infuses ...