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Summary: The last neighborhood in town
Review: One of the greatest 80's movies ever with some of the greatest lines i ever heard. My favorite scene is with Kent(Michael Wincott) who is so stoned he doesn't know what planet he's on. Then there are all the callers; Debbie, Chet, Ralph, and especially the woman who says Ted Bundy could be living next door on the porch, watching T.V. eating potato chips and i wouldn't know it. Strange Air. My favorite line: " Ralph I am curious, how do you dial a phone with a straightjacket on." Eric Bogosian is so underated it is not funny. This is one of Oliver Stone's best. One year after Wall Street, he gave us this mind blowing film. Awesome
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Summary: HYPNOTIC!!
Review: This is an hypnotically powerful film about the media and the dark fascinations in our culture.Eric Bogosian stars in this adaption of his equally superb play of the same name. This film is directed by Oliver Stone, touching on the same issues he was trying to confront in "Natural Born Killers". In particular, a numbed culture, that has a dark fascination in hearing about the violence and misery of others. As we hear, Bogosian's talk-radio charcter, Barry Champlain, verbally attack his callers, cut off the one's who are boring, and stay on the one's who talk about their violent and twisted impulses. we are absolutely transfixed by the dark and sick calls and at the same time disgusted at our own fascination.
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Summary: Under-rated
Review: This is one of the most under-rated movies around. Definitely Oliver Stone's best and that's largely due to Eric Bogosian's script and performance. One of my favourite movies. Watch for the memorable appearance of "Kent".
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Summary: One of Oliver Stone's Best
Review: This may be Oliver Stone's best movies..hard to believe it was nearly 17 years ago when it was made. Begosian is very believable as a emotionally mixed up talk show host who finds himself getting more and more angry at the world and at his callers. It is a tragic story, but does have it's funny moments too. Imagine Jerry Seinfeld gone mad and yelling at his audience, and that is pretty much the cauldron of emotion you have with Barry Champlain.
Being a radio talk show host myself I can empathize with the temptation to get mad at callers or to call them names, but it is a line radio show hosts must not cross if they want to survive. You can be an engaging talk show host without alienating half of your audience. Barry Champlain learned the lesson the hard way. It's a wonder someone has not assasinated Howard Stern yet. Did he get some of his show style from this movie?
The movie did also point out some of the very prejudiced people we have in this country, as heard in the comments of some of Barry's angry and self-righteous callers, some of them even Nazi's. Unfortunately bigotry and hatred in the USA will not be wiped out in my lifetime.
This movie made me think and made me feel.
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Summary: Amazing!!!
Review: This movie is in my top four favorite Oliver Stone Movies. ( Nixon, JFK,Born On The Fourth Of July) This movie has so much character and so much gumption. I still find the ending the most haunting of all Stone endings.Eric Bogosian and Stone made a believable and well written script. You feel for the characters. This movie is a prime example of Stone's incredible talent.
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Summary: Oliver Stone's best movie, Eric Bogosian's tour-de-force
Review: This movie works so well because unlike with his other films, Oliver Stone just lets the material do the work for him. The material and the actor/playwright, actually; Eric Bogosian's excellent portrayal of a talk-show host skirting his psyche's edge on-air and off is jaw-dropping. You watch this guy weave himself into a tighter and tighter shell as his world crumbles and feel helpless to stop his flight to destruction. Ellen Green and other supporting cast members round things out, and TALK RADIO ends up being the most powerful vision that Stone has ever brought to the screen, before or since.
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