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Stop Making Sense

1984 film by Jonathan Demme
Movie film Q2351784

Facts

44 properties
Instance of
film
Award received
National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Non-Fiction Film[1]
Director
Jonathan Demme[2]
Genre
music documentary film, concert film[13][14]
Publication date
April 24, 1984, November 16, 1984, October 18, 1984[32][33][34]
Official website
stopmakingsense.movie[37]
Screenwriter
Jonathan Demme, Jerry Harrison, Chris Frantz, David Byrne, Tina Weymouth[3][4][5][6][7]
Producer
Gary Goetzman, Gary Kurfirst[20][21]
Part of
National Film Registry[23]
Nominated for
National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Non-Fiction Film, National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Film[39][40]
Duration
+88
Aspect ratio (W:H)
1.85:1
Australian Classification
G
BBFC rating
PG certificate, PG certificate, PG certificate
CNC film rating (France)
no age restriction
Capital cost
+1200000
Cast member
Talking Heads, Bernie Worrell, Tina Weymouth, David Byrne, Jerry Harrison[15][16][17][18][19]
ClassInd rating
12
Color
color[30]
Composer
Tina Weymouth, David Byrne, Chris Frantz, Talking Heads, Jerry Harrison[8][9][10][11][12]
Country of origin
United States[31]
Different from
Stop Making Sense, Stop Making Sense[44]
Director of photography
Jordan Cronenweth[22]
Distributed by
Cinecom, Netflix[35][36]
Show all 44 facts +20
Distribution format
video on demand[27]
EIRIN film rating
G
Executive producer
Gary Kurfirst[41]
FSK film rating
FSK 0[45]
Filming location
Hollywood Pantages Theatre[38]
IFCO rating
PG
IGAC rating
M/6
KAVI rating
S
KMRB film rating
12
Kijkwijzer rating
9
MPA film rating
PG[43]
Original language of film or TV show
English[24]
P14449
2859
P14671
54490
P14801
stop-making-sense-q29sbgvjdglvbjpwwc0zmte5ntu
P15002
film/195622
Review score
100%, 9/10[28][29]
Set in environment
concert hall
Soundtrack release
Stop Making Sense, Slippery People[25][26]
Title
Stop Making Sense[42]
🏷️ Also known as
en Stop Making Sense de Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense ja ストップ・メイキング・センス ko 스탑 메이킹 센스 zh 別假正經 zh 别假正经 zh 造反有理
🔖 Identifiers · 60
AllMovie title ID
v46972
Allcinema film ID
11971
AlloCiné film ID
50892
Apple TV movie ID
umc.cmc.4qcn1p5rridjzo742xirf9j8m
Australian Classification ID
stop-making-sense, talking-heads-stop-making-sense
Blu-ray.com film ID
1865369
Box Office Mojo film ID (former scheme)
stopmakingsense
Cine.gr film ID (archived)
713039
Cineplex Germany film ID
15504
Cinémathèque québécoise work ID
6068
DNF film ID
4658
Decine21 film ID
48190
Show all 60 identifiers +48
Does the Dog Die? media ID
34360
Douban film ID
1300285
Dvdcompare.net film ID
35k (1.1k–69k, n=3)
EIDR content ID
10.5240/8192-5902-0C76-4C16-F7BA-0
ElFilm film ID
87932
Elonet movie ID
105757
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
topic/Stop-Making-Sense
Exploitation mark number
60971
Fernsehserien.de ID
filme/stop-making-sense
FilmAffinity film ID
739610
FilmVandaag ID
film/13216
Filmarks ID
movies/114036
Filmfront film ID (archived)
47041
Filmová databáze film ID
136338
Filmweb.no film ID
86413
Freebase ID
/m/0545nh
IMDb ID
tt0088178
ISAN
0000-0000-4086-0000-P-0000-0000-0
ITunes movie ID
862365096
Kinobox film ID
198472
Kinopoisk film ID
9943
LUMIERE film ID
2422
LdiF ID
45328
Letterboxd film ID
stop-making-sense
MUBI film ID
17532
MYmovies audiovisual work ID
24008
Metacritic ID
movie/stop-making-sense
Moviepilot.de film ID
stop-making-sense
Namuwiki ID
스탑 메이킹 센스
Netflix ID
21636039
NientePopCorn movie ID
stop-making-sense
OFDb film ID
20628
OMDb film ID
99045
PORT film ID
148407
Plex media key
5d776d0ead5437001f7cbcd0
Rotten Tomatoes ID
m/stop_making_sense
Schnittberichte.com title ID
68690
Scope.dk film ID
4519
SensCritique work ID
491103
Soundtrack Collector title ID
41109
Swedish Film Database ID
6896
TCM Movie Database film ID
443982
TMDB movie ID
24128
TheTVDB movie ID
12560
Trakt.tv ID
movies/stop-making-sense-1984
Trakt.tv film ID
14488
Yle Areena item ID
1-4149294
ČSFD film ID
42991

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🔗 Connections
Cast member 5
Talking Heads, David Byrne, Tina Weymouth, Jerry Harrison, Bernie Worrell
Composer 5
Talking Heads, David Byrne, Tina Weymouth, Chris Frantz, Jerry Harrison
Screenwriter 5
Jonathan Demme, David Byrne, Tina Weymouth, Chris Frantz, Jerry Harrison
Producer 2
Gary Goetzman, Gary Kurfirst
Country of origin 1
United States
Different from 1
Stop Making Sense
Director 1
Jonathan Demme
Director of photography 1
Jordan Cronenweth
Distributed by 1
Netflix
Distribution format 1
video on demand
Executive producer 1
Gary Kurfirst
Filming location 1
Hollywood Pantages Theatre
Genre 1
concert film
Instance of 1
film
Nominated for 1
National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Film
Original language of film or TV show 1
English
Part of 1
National Film Registry
Set in environment 1
concert hall
Soundtrack release 1
Stop Making Sense
← Different from 1
Stop Making Sense
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FAQs

What awards did Stop Making Sense receive?

Honors received include National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Non-Fiction Film[1].

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served-tier precision 80.7% [76.2, 84.5] · rated rows currently served n=342 · entailment-gated at 0.85 · measured 2026-09-29 · re-scored every 10 min, demoted at the half-hourly fold

Director Jonathan Demme emerging0.805 independent sources

evidence “Silence of the Lambs’s Jonathan Demme directed 1984’s iconic Stop Making Sense, and Spike Lee 2020’s American Utopia, which documented Byrne’s tour for the album.” pastemagazine.com · read source

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    Publication date → +1984-04-24T00:00:00Z, +1984-11-16T00:00:00Z, +1984-10-18T00:00:00Z
    IFCO rating → PG
    Screenwriter → Jonathan Demme, Jerry Harrison, Chris Frantz +2
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