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Genres:
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Biography /
Drama /
History
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Director:
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Kasi Lemmons
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Actors:
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Chiwetel Ejiofor,
Taraji P. Henson,
J. Miles Dale,
Todd Schroeder,
Adam Gaudreau,
Sean MacMahon,
Martin Randez,
Don Cheadle,
Bruce McFee,
Mike Epps,
Peter MacNeill,
Cedric the Entertainer,
Martin Sheen,
Richard Chevolleau,
Vondie Curtis-Hall
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Duration:
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119 min.
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Rating:
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(7.4/10)91.5
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Plot Summary:
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In the 1960s, in Washington, D.C., vibrant soul music and exploding social consciousness were combining to unparalleled and powerful bring about. With the support of his irrepressible and uncontrollable girlfriend Vernell (Taraji P. Henson), the newly minted ex-con Petey (Don Cheadle) talks his technique into an on-air radio gig. At WOL-AM, Petey becomes an iconic trannie temperament, unsurpassed even the established popularity of his boyfriend disc jockeys, Nighthawk (Cedric The Entertainer) and Sunny Jim (Vondie Curtis Hall). Combining biting humor with social commentary, ... Petey openly courts controversy for station proprietress E.G. Sonderling (Martin Polish). As Petey???s voice, humor, and disposition surge across the airwaves with the robustness of the date, listeners tune in to hear not only incredible music but also a gentleman speaking as soon as to them about race and power in America not many people everlastingly have.
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Talk to Me
A colourful biopic of Petey Greene, an irreverent black ex-con who becomes a popular Washington DC disc jockey during the turbulent 1960s
Talk Radio is the exception that proves the rule: the secret of films about radio DJs is to get the action out of the studio and to find a more cinematic distraction for viewers who, after all, could be at home listening to their wireless (or watching 'Frasier') for free.
In Play Misty For Me, the hook was a bunny-boiling erotomaniac; in Good Morning Vietnam, it was the background of Indo-Chinese conflict; in The Fisher King, a modern quest for the Holy Grail; Private Parts, nudity and crudity; and in Straight Talk, big-city roman...
Talk to Me
Carina ChocanoTalk to Me, which stars Don Cheadle and Chiwetel Ejiofor, hearkens to another era, to a time before shock jocks bestrode morning drive time like colossal blowhards. Cheadle plays Ralph Waldo "Petey" Greene, an ex-con turned Washington, D.C., radio and television talk-show host, beloved local icon and Howard Stern role model. Ejiofor plays the straight-laced Dewey Hughes, who put him on the air when nobody else would have. Their unlikely friendship and partnership, founded on a shared commitment to speak out against injustice, is the focus of director Kasi Lemmons' film, which observes the fervor of a bygone activist culture longingly, as if to ask, what's with everybody now?
Greene and Hughes met in 1966 at the Lorton correctional facility, where Greene ...
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