Talk Radio (1989)
80 %
Reviews Counted: 25 Fresh: 20 Rotten:5 Average Rating: 6.7/10
Runtime: 1 hr 50 mins
Synopsis: Based loosely on the life of the murdered talk-radio personality Alan Berg, TALK RADIO stars monologist Eric Bogosian as the abrasive, self-loathing talk-radio host Barry Champlain. He spends his nights at Dallas station KGAB engaged in vitriolic conversations with a motley assortment... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Eric Bogosian, Ellen Greene, Alec Baldwin, Leslie Hope, Michael Wincott
Director: Oliver Stone
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02/09/06
He asks an accepting audience, both in the film and in the theater: How much crap will you take, and why?
09/06/04
Talk Radio...is a nearly perfect example of how not to make a movie of a play.
08/30/04
Top Critic
One of Stone's unqualified failures, by which I mean that even his usually muscular style can't partially redeem.
07/04/04
Holds up a disturbing image of a consumer culture where trash is viewed as treasure and excess spells success.
07/10/03
Far more Eric Bogosian than Oliver Stone, and still timely, even after fifteen years.
10/03/02
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