Never underestimate a man with something to say.
Academy Award nominee Don Cheadle portrays Ralph Waldo "Petey" Greene Jr in this funny, dramatic and inspiring true story.
Petey is an ex-con who talks his way into an on-air radio gig in the mid-to-late 1960s in Washington DC, when vibrant soul music and exploding social consciousness were combining to unique and powerful effect.
From the first wild morning on the air, Petey becomes an iconic radio personality, surpassing the popularity of his fellow established disc jockeys. Combining biting humour with social commentary, Petey openly courts controversy for program director Dewey Hughes (Chiwetel Ejiofor) and station owner EG Sonderling (Martin Sheen).
As Petey's voice, humour, and spirit surge across the airwaves with the vitality of the era, listeners tune in to hear not only incredible music but also a man speaking directly to the community about race and power during an exciting and turbulent period in American history.
Special Agent Matti
Huh. Another bio-pic about some dud I never heard of. If you're studying the African-American civil rights movement in history class then Talk to me will give you a good look at the times in a kind of interesting way but it's hard to watch the history of people who didn't exist until you saw the movie (Dr Martin Luther King Jr excepted, of course). Other than that, Good morning, Vietnam was funnier.
The biography, Ralph Waldo "Petey" Greene Jr movie Talk to me is directed by Kasi Lemmons and stars Don Cheadle, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Martin Sheen.
M (Moderate coarse language, moderate sexual references and sex scene, infrequent moderate violence)
118 minutes (1:58 hours)
Film: 21 February 2008
