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Talk Radio
Directed by
Oliver Stone
R
1988
1h 49m
Drama
,
Thriller
7.2
84%
80%
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A rude, contemptuous talk show host becomes overwhelmed by the hatred that surrounds his program just before it goes national.
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Cast of Talk Radio
Eric Bogosian
Barry Champlain
Ellen Greene
Ellen
Leslie Hope
Laura
John C. McGinley
Stu
Alec Baldwin
Dan
John Pankow
Dietz
Michael Wincott
Kent / Michael / Joe
Linda Atkinson
Sheila Fleming
Robert Trebor
Jeffrey Fisher / Francine
Zach Grenier
Sid Greenberg
Tony Frank
Dino
Harlan Jordan
Coach Armstrong
Bill Johnson
Fan #1
Kevin Howard
Fan #2
Anna Thomson
Woman at Basketball Game / Denise
Bruno Rubeo
Tony
Pirie MacDonald
Judge Willard
Allan Corduner
Vince / Morris
Mimi Cochran
Girl #1
Rockets Redglare
Killer / Redneck Caller
Angus G. Wynne III
Engineer
Chip Moody
Announcer
David Poynter
Engineer
Peter Zapp
Josh / Vincent (voice)
Carl Kissin
Glen (voice)
Park Overall
Debbie / Agnes / Theresa (voice)
Michele Mariana
Rhonda / Elderly Woman / Julia (voice)
Earl Hindman
Chet / Black John / Jerry (voice)
John Seitz
Bob (voice)
Kyle McClaran
Arnold (voice)
Dee Pyland
Nancy (voice)
Daniel Escobar
Frank (voice)
William De Acutis
John the Rapist / Ralph (voice)
Frederica Meister
Sexy Woman (voice)
Luis Barajas
Fred (voice)
Vernie Bailey
Jackie (voice)
Martin Rayner
Arnold (voice)
Alan Clark
Larry (voice)
John B. Wells
V.O. (voice)
Leigh French
Newscaster (voice)
Walter Lynn
Newscaster (voice)
Theresa Bell
Lucy (uncredited)
Kim Gelvin
Basketball Game Audience Member (uncredited)
Wayne Shannon
Basketball Game Photographer (uncredited)
Talk Radio Reviews
Orlando Sentinel
Jay Boyar
If you think you're unshockable, see this film and then see what you think.
Chicago Tribune
Gene Siskel
The film has a purposefully repellent but fascinating quality. Bogosian`s performance, based on his stage play, is spectacularly demented.
Chicago Tribune
Dave Kehr
As a director, Stone has a way of merging with the point of view of his protagonists, which is to say that his films are as jittery, wired-up and fragmented as they are.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
Not to put too fine a point on it, Bogosian is prickly, irritable, alienating and overwhelming. Underwhelming, however, is the way that director Oliver Stone has taken monologuist Bogosian's intimate Off-Broadway play and "opened it up."
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Talk Radio is directed by Stone with a claustrophobic intensity.
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
The overall effect is disturbing yet mesmerizing; most of the movie takes place in the radio studio while the hero is on the air, and the moral questions raised by his incendiary brand of broadcasting are left provocatively open.
Los Angeles Times
Michael Wilmington
Oliver Stone's Talk Radio makes you laugh, makes you mad and keeps you edgily watching for the killers in the shadows.
TIME Magazine
Richard Corliss
Stone wants more. In Salvador and Platoon he found drama to match his message; here he must invent tragedy to suit his spleen.
People Magazine
Peter Travers
Stone's hyperkinetic direction keeps you riveted. He stalks every move Champlain makes around the studio as he revs up bigots, druggies, sex fiends and religious fanatics whom he then viciously puts down.
Variety
Variety Staff
Bogosian commands attention in a patented tour-de-force. Supporting performances are all vividly realized, notably Michael Wincott's drug-crazed Champlain fan invited to the studio for a tete-a-tete with the host.
New York Times
Vincent Canby
Talk Radio... is a nearly perfect example of how not to make a movie of a play.
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
It's midnight in America and there's a lot of angry people out there in the darkness. If that's the main point to Oliver Stone's Talk Radio, it's the only one.
Washington Post
Hal Hinson
Talk Radio has the loony intensity of those impassioned conspiracy theorists who look out at the world and see patterns of corruption spreading in all directions...it's another of Stone's wake-up calls to America.
CinePassion
Fernando F. Croce
The voice-in-the-dark hysteria comes no less out of Stone, seizing the success d'estime transplant for the personal, even confessional, quandary of the anguished truth-teller in the end engulfed by the system.
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
Powerfully directed by Oliver Stone, whose swirling camera transforms a radio studio into a white-hot caldron of words and emotions.
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Roger Hurlburt
Just how far can Barry go? That`s what stupified audiences will begin to wonder at the outset of this riveting drama.
Tulsa World
Dennis King
Talk Radio has all the charm of a conversation with Morton Downey Jr. and Geraldo Rivera. It's fascinating without being likable. It's exploitative, mean-spirited and angry... and very compelling.
Philadelphia Daily News
Kathleen Shea
Talk Radio is an exhaustively and exhaustingly unpleasant portrait of an unpleasant guy.
TV Guide
Fueled by a brilliant performance from Bogosian, Talk Radio is an intense experience that will leave most audiences feeling drained.
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