Talk Radio

Name: Talk Radio
Released: 1988-12-21
Cast: Eric Bogosian, Alec Baldwin, Ellen Greene, Leslie Hope, John C. McGinley

Talk Radio

R
1h 48m
1988

82%

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Academy Award®-winning writer/director Oliver Stone brings shock radio to the screen in this relentlessly fast-paced suspense thriller. Dallas talk radio host Barry Champlain (Eric Bogosian) discovers one weekend that his skills in pushing people's buttons have won him a chance for national syndication. But instead of celebrating, he subjects his ex-wife (Ellen Greene) and co-workers to a darkly comic marathon bout of compulsive risk-taking with his unstable radio audience. Barry and his "fans" - the lonely, the angry and the dangerous - know that talk is not cheap, and words can kill.

Director:

Oliver Stone

Producer:

Edward R. Pressman, A. Kitman Ho

Writer:

Eric Bogosian, Oliver Stone

Cast:

Eric Bogosian, Alec Baldwin, Ellen Greene, Leslie Hope, John C. McGinley, John Pankow, Michael Wincott

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

82%

Critics Consensus: The gripping union of a director and star at the peak of their respective powers, Talk Radio offers the viewer a singularly unlikable character and dares you to look away.

Reviews

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David Nusair

Talk Radio‘s perpetually watchable vibe is heightened by Stone’s stylish visuals and a series of top-notch performances...

Stone and Bogosian do an excellent job of demonstrating how a figure like Barry attracts and repels people at the same time, and they convince you that Barry thrives in the atmosphere of venomous paranoia he creates.

Of all the new movies, Talk Radio aims to be the most controversial. Oddly enough, it is the least interesting-full of sound, fury and insignificance.

Yet despite its faults this is a strikingly intelligent film, which keeps its chilly grip to the end.

[Bogosian gives] a biting, energetic, get-under-your-skin performance -- the daring centerpiece of this impressive, thought-provoking film.

February 7, 2019

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