Talk Radio

Talk Radio is a 1988 film, starring Eric Bogosian, Ellen Greene, Leslie Hope, John C. McGinley, Alec Baldwin, John Pankow, Michael Wincott, Robert Trebor, Tony Frank, Anna Levine, Rockets Redglare, Park Overall and Earl Hindman. It is directed by Oliver Stone, and is based on the play by Eric Bogosian and Tad Savinar and inspired by the real-life murder of radio host Alan Berg by Neo-Nazis, which was chronicled in the book, Talked to Death: The L... more

Talk Radio is a 1988 film, starring Eric Bogosian, Ellen Greene, Leslie Hope, John C. McGinley, Alec Baldwin, John Pankow, Michael Wincott, Robert Trebor, Tony Frank, Anna Levine, Rockets Redglare, Park Overall and Earl Hindman. It is directed by Oliver Stone, and is based on the play by Eric Bogosian and Tad Savinar and inspired by the real-life murder of radio host Alan Berg by Neo-Nazis, which was chronicled in the book, Talked to Death: The Life and Murder of Alan Berg by Stephen Singular. Barry Champlain, a Jewish radio personality in Dallas, Texas, is a host with a caustic sense of humor and a knack for cutting people down with his controversial political views. Champlain's radio show is about to go nationwide. A former suit salesman, he achieves his rise to fame through a guest shot on the Jeff Fisher radio show. He is subsequently given his own show. Barry has a substantial number of hostile callers trying to intimidate him and sometimes receives threatening fan mail, such as... less