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Talk to Me (Combo HD DVD and Standard DVD) [HD DVD] | ![Talk to Me (Combo HD DVD and Standard DVD) [HD DVD]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51LkXqP2LsL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: Kasi Lemmons
Actors: Don Cheadle, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Bruce Mcfee, Mike Epps, Peter Macneill
Studio: Universal Studios
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Format: Ac-3, Color, Dolby, Subtitled, Widescreen
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: HD DVD
Region: 0
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 119 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 00033
UPC: 025195000338
EAN: 0025195000338
Theatrical Release Date: August 3, 2007
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Product Description
Universal Pictures Talk to Me (Combo HD DVD and Standard DVD) There's no doubt: Don Cheadle and Chiwetel Ejiofor are two of the most dynamic actors around. In their hands, Talk to Me becomes as graceful as an Astaire-Rogers dance and as volcanic as heavyweight championship bout. In this true story set in the 1960s, Dewey Hughes (Ejiofor, Dirty Pretty Things, Inside Man) works for a Washington, D.C., radio station that's losing its hold on its urban audience. When ex-con "Petey" Green (Cheadle, Hotel Rwanda, Crash) blusters his way into the station's offices, Hughes rejects him at first, but soon suspects that this fiery loudmouth might be the spark the station needs. Thus begins a long, rocky relationship between two men who need each other for success and friendship, whose mutual career turns explosive on the set of The Tonight Show. Though directed with smooth confidence by Kasi Lemmons (Eve's Bayou), Talk to Me would be a fairly conventional biography were it not for its two lead performers. Cheadle and Ejiofor make both of these men complex and contradictory, wary and deeply caring, proud and aggressive but often self-defeating.
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There's no doubt: Don Cheadle and Chiwetel Ejiofor are two of the most dynamic actors around. In their hands, Talk to Me becomes as graceful as an Astaire-Rogers dance and as volcanic as heavyweight championship bout. In this true story set in the 1960s, Dewey Hughes (Ejiofor, Dirty Pretty Things, Inside Man) works for a Washington, D.C., radio station that's losing its hold on its urban audience. When ex-con "Petey" Green (Cheadle, Hotel Rwanda, Crash) blusters his way into the station's offices, Hughes rejects him at first, but soon suspects that this fiery loudmouth might be the spark the station needs. Thus begins a long, rocky relationship between two men who need each other for success and friendship, whose mutual career turns explosive on the set of The Tonight Show. Though directed with smooth confidence by Kasi Lemmons (Eve's Bayou), Talk to Me would be a fairly conventional biography were it not for its two lead performers. Cheadle and Ejiofor make both of these men complex and contradictory, wary and deeply caring, proud and aggressive but often self-defeating. They bring this slice of history--Green's career is deeply intertwined with the civil-rights movement--to crackling life. Giving them solid support are Martin Sheen (The West Wing), Cedric the Entertainer (Barbershop), and Taraji P. Henson (Hustle & Flow) as Green's sexy and assertive girlfriend, Vernell. --Bret Fetzer
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 Mary the movie lover June 6, 2009
got film?
I was expecting this movie to be a big-afro-wearin' 1960 fun time. Then reality hit with a whole lotta drama and civil rights issues; too heavy for a Saturday night. I guess the movie started out to be a very silly over-the-top flash back to the groovy 60s and took a sharp serious turn that I did not see coming. I don't think there's anything funny about what happened back then and I didn't care for the comedic start and the dead serious finish. Confused. Perhaps the movie-makers wanted to reel the audience in with all of the silly stuff and then bop 'em on the head with what really went down back in those groovy 1960s? I guess I'll watch it again and take it more seriously from the start. It's worth a look and possibly a second
 Simply a great movie April 1, 2009
E. Williams (St Pete, FL)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have nothing negative to say about this movie. It was so funny, and didn't overstep it's bounds. I knew after the first half of the movie, which could be called the "funny half", that there would have to be some drama introduced. Almost no movie made in the last decade is just funny the whole way through, least of all one based upon such serious circumstances. I was nervous, thinking, oh lord, here we go, they're going to ruin this movie by overdramatizing everything, just like they always do. But: SURPRISE! They introduced drama that was believable, and compelling on a human level. They don't attempt to make Petey and Dewey out to be saints, thus keeping their characters authentic and real. No over-acting, great soundtrack, great sets and wardrobe, and a fantastic script. I cannot recommend this movie enough.
 Don Cheadle is great January 24, 2009
Dorothy M. Anderson (Center Line, Michigan)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I think I liked the first half of the movie better, but the acting was terrific.
If anything, you have to see it JUST for Don Cheadle's performance.
And his girlfriend is hilariously good in it, too.
Martin Sheen has a great part, too, and also the guy who played Dewey.
If you don't like the raw language, not recommended.
Talk to Me January 8, 2009
Katrina A. Slyke (Baltimore, MD USA)
Don cheadle is a wonderful actor and he gives a great performance in this movie. Thanks for the great buy!
interesting biopic December 11, 2008
Roland E. Zwick (Valencia, Ca USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
***1/2
Ralph Waldo "Petey" Greene was only a few months out of prison when, in 1966, he finagled his way into a job as D.J. at WOR, the premier soul station in the Washington D. C. area. With his sometimes inflammatory rhetoric and fired-up delivery, Petey quickly became known as a "truth teller" and the "voice of the people" for the station's predominantly black listening audience. It wasn't long before he was branching out into other areas of the entertainment industry including television and stand-up comedy.
For about the first hour or so, "Talk to Me," directed by Kasi Lemmons, feels like a subdued and considerably lesser version of the far more animated "Private Parts," but then, at about the midway point, the movie hits its stride with the death of Martin Luther King Jr. and Greene's on-air efforts to bring order to a city rent by anger and civil strife. In many ways, Greene's need to always be true to himself and what he stood for prevented him from ever achieving true mainstream popularity, mainly because he refused to play by the rules set down by the middle-brow entertainment establishment (his abortive - nay disastrous - appearance on The Tonight Show is a highlight of the movie).
The ever impressive Don Cheadle slides effortlessly into the role of Greene, while Chiwetel Ejiofor is equally effective as Dewey Hughes, the man who gets Greene his first gig at the station. It is their tumultuous and complex relationship - which often deals with the issue of just how "assimilationist" blacks were supposed to be at that time - that becomes the galvanizing force of the movie.
The temper of the era - spanning from 1966 to Greene's untimely death from liver cancer in 1984 - is effectively conveyed through a canny combination of newsreel footage and re-creations of key events of the time.
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