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Talk to Me (2007) on Netflix

R20071h 58mBiographyDramaHistory

In 1960s Washington, D.C., ex-con Ralph "Petey" Greene talks his way toward an on-air radio job at WOL, where Dewey Hughes is program director. Vernell, his girlfriend, backs him.

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  • Rotten Tomatoes83%

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In the mid-1960s, Ralph "Petey" Greene is serving time when he meets Dewey Hughes, who has come to visit his brother Milo. Petey learns that Dewey works in radio, as the program director at WOL in Washington, D.C. After Petey helps the warden talk down a fellow prisoner, he is released. He turns up at the station and claims Dewey promised him a job on the air, but he is rebuffed. With his girlfriend Vernell behind him, he pickets outside the station, drawing growing crowds, until Dewey agrees to a game of pool and offers him a chance behind the microphone.

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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Talk to Me (2007)

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  • Ralph "Petey" Greene's surviving family members refused to cooperate with the making of Talk to Me and criticized the film for taking liberties with how it portrayed Greene and the people around him.

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