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First episode date
  
1987

Duration
  

Language
  
English

7.8/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Documentary

Narrated by
  
Polly Holliday

Country
  
United States

American Tongues movie poster

Director
  
Louis Alvarez Andy Kolker

Release date
  
July 5, 1988 (1988-07-05)

Directors
  
Louis Alvarez, Andrew Kolker

Cast
  
Molly Ivins
,
Robert Klein
,
Polly Holliday
,
Trey Wilson

Similar movies
  
Andrew Kolker and others directed American Tongues and Getting Back to Abnormal

Tagline
  
A film about the way we talk

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American Tongues is a 1988 sociolinguistic documentary examining American English dialects and accents and perceptions thereof.

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It was produced and directed by Louis Alvarez and Andrew Kolker. The Center for New American Media won a Peabody Award for the film in 1987.

References

American Tongues Wikipedia
American Tongues IMDb American Tongues themoviedb.org