Full Movie Reviews
Rating of
4/4
A Man Alone
Andrew - wrote on 05/13/2012
Talk Radio is a very compelling film that grips the viewer start to finish. Its 110 minute running time goes by in a flash as the viewer sees a man slowly self-destruct.
That man is Barry Champlain (Eric Bogosian), a Jewish talk show host in Dallas, TX. Everyday on the air, Barry is inundated with callers who spew racist, homophobic, and anti-Semitic epithets at him. Usually Barry responds by insulted his listeners right back. However, as his show is about to become syndicated nationally, his boss Dan (Alec Baldwin) encourages him to scale back his rhetoric. Champlain ignores Dan's advice and continues with his antics and the hate and vitriol only increases with dire consequences.
Talk Radio is certainly one of Oliver Stone's more underrated films. It is a very simple …
Rating of
3/4
One of Oliver Stones best
TheWolf - wrote on 08/17/2007
Talk Radio is about a man who shoots off his mouth at everyone who calls him up on his show. And some of them love him, but others hate him, and threaten him, and some of the one's who love him make stuff up to talk to him, than he blows them off. Quickly becoming well known for his bold and quirky air-presence he becomes a late night sensation, whereby depraved junkies, delinquents, racists, sociopaths, sickos, perverts and morons call in to be ridiculed on air. The film shows the rise and fall of the man's career, carefully making an accurate portrayal on freedom of speech. Originally adapted from a stage-play, the film attaches itself to the theatre theme that it was originally built around, and does an incredible job conveying the film's fierce nature.
