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Home of the Brave is a 1986 American concert film featuring the music of Laurie Anderson, who also directed the movie. It is also the title of the soundtrack album of the film, which was Anderson's fourth album release.

The film included appearances by guitarist Adrian Belew, Beat author William S. Burroughs (who famously briefly dances a slow tango with Anderson during one song), keyboardist Joy Askew, and percussionist David Van Tieghem. The film was released by Warner Brothers, but was commercially unsuccessful.

A soundtrack album, which contained studio versions of some songs from the film, and live versions of others, was released concurrently with the film. A music video for the song "Language is a Virus", using footage from the film but the studio recording of the song, received wide airplay.

The film was briefly available on VHS in the early 1990s, but as of 2005 has yet to be released on DVD.

Musical selections included songs taken from Anderson's 1984 album, Mister Heartbreak (the film was shot during a tour in support of the album), as well as a couple of selections from her United States multimedia show of 1983 and several original pieces. Warner Brothers requested Anderson create a single-friendly release from the soundtrack, so she recorded a faster-tempo, "dance mix" version of the song "Smoke Rings." Ultimately, this recording was not released, however it can be heard during the All-Night Diner sequence of her short film What You Mean We?
.

Soundtrack listing

# "Smoke Rings" (7:00) # "White Lily" (1:16) # "Late Show" (4:30) # "Talk Normal" (5:27) # "Language is a Virus" (4:10) # "Radar" (2:01) # "Sharkey's Night" (6:16) # "Credit Racket" (3:28)

Trivia

Barry Sonnenfeld
, who was early in his movie-making career, receives an early film credit for operating "second projection camera" on this film.

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