Rotten
Talk Radio...is a nearly perfect example of how not to make a movie of a play.
Vincent Canby, New York Times
Overview
A rude, contemptuous talk show host becomes overwhelmed by the hatred that surrounds his program just before it goes national.
Director and cast
- Oliver Stone Director
- Eric Bogosian as Barry Champlain
- Ellen Greene as Ellen
- Leslie Hope as Laura
- John C. McGinley as Stu
- Alec Baldwin as Dan
- John Pankow as Dietz
- Anna Thomson as Woman at the Basketball Game/Denise
- Michael Wincott as Kent/Michael/Joe
- Rockets Redglare as Redneck Caller/Killer
- Allan Corduner as Vince/Morris
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
82%
Tomatometer
Rotten
It's midnight in America and there's a lot of angry people out there in the darkness. If that's the main point to Oliver Stone's Talk Radio, it's the only one.
Desson Thomson, Washington Post
Fresh
Talk Radio has the loony intensity of those impassioned conspiracy theorists who look out at the world and see patterns of corruption spreading in all directions...it's another of Stone's wake-up calls to America.
Hal Hinson, Washington Post
Fresh
Talk Radio is directed by Stone with a claustrophobic intensity.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
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