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- 72/100 based on 14,236 votes
  • Released: 1988
  • Runtime: 109 mins
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  • Studio: Universal Pictures
  • Genres: Drama

An acerbic radio talk show host based in Dallas starts what could be an important few days when he discovers that his controversial late night show is about to be "picked up" by a nationwide network of radio stations. However, all is not perfect for him, because on top of troubles with his love life and fears that the management of the network will try to alter the content of his show he has to cope with a neo-nazi group who have been angered by his forthright opinions.... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in Talk Radio:

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

Full Plot Details

An acerbic radio talk show host based in Dallas starts what could be an important few days when he discovers that his controversial late night show is about to be "picked up" by a nationwide network of radio stations. However, all is not perfect for him, because on top of troubles with his love life and fears that the management of the network will try to alter the content of his show he has to cope with a neo-nazi group who have been angered by his forthright opinions.

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Chicago Sun-Times - 10/10 by Roger EbertTalk Radio is based on a play Bogosian wrote and starred in, and it was the right decision to star him in the movie, too, instead of some famous film actor. He feels this material from the inside out, and makes the character convincing. That’s especially true during a virtuoso, unsettling closing monologue, in which we think the camera is circling Bogosian - until we realize the camera and the actor are still, and the backgrounds are circling.
New Times - 10/10 by Luke Y. ThompsonOliver Stone's overly dramatic new ending puts a damper on things, but Bogosian has never been more magnetic
Orlando Sentinel - 10/10 by Jay BoyarStone and Bogosian have gotten hold of a disturbing, even frightening, subject here, and they ride it for all they are worth. Talk Radio says that the depravity of the mass media is fed and surpassed by the roar of the maniac crowd.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch - 10/10 by Joe PollackAs a transcription of Bogosian's theater piece, Talk Radio is tense, packed and crackling with life. As a dramatic investigation into Alan Berg and his murder, it's shallow and dubious. But as a synthesis of those two disjointed halves into a volatile whole--a comic-paranoid nightmare about media success, media myths, prejudice and the pathological relationship between performers and their audience--the film is an often dazzling success. Bogosian and the cast are bravura performers; Stone a director with guts and talent.
Chicago Tribune - 9/10 by Gene SiskelThe film has a purposefully repellent but fascinating quality. Bogosian`s performance, based on his stage play, is spectacularly demented.
Los Angeles Times - 9/10 by Michael WilmingtonOliver Stone's Talk Radio makes you laugh, makes you mad and keeps you edgily watching for the killers in the shadows.
Spirituality and Practice - 8/10 by Frederic and Mary Ann BrussatHolds up a disturbing image of a consumer culture where trash is viewed as treasure and excess spells success.
Ozus' World Movie Reviews - 8/10 by Dennis SchwartzThe monologues are chilling, but too many subplots interfere with them.
Washington Post - 8/10 by Hal HinsonThere's no question that the bigotry and shallowness exist out there in the American night, but there's no proportion in Stone's presentation. Stone strains too hard to make his points and in the process distorts them, undermines them. Still, Stone would probably be proud that he's made a picture that audiences may want to ward off and escape from. In that sense, he seems to see himself as being just like Champlain -- a teller of stern and disquieting truths.
Chicago Tribune - 8/10 by Dave KehrIssues are raised and dismissed with dizzying, dismaying speed.

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