Robert Joyner The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

Ariella Broughton It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

Nicole I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Francene Odetta It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

akdaddy I heard people compare this to Private Parts, let me be the first to say not even close. This story is not trying to be a comedy, yet a heartfelt story of black America during the late 1960's. Peety Green was an innovator and changed the face of radio in America. This movie gives is a great story and combines music to flow all the way through. I have watched it over and over again and have a hard time finding a flaw in the performances of the actors. Martin Sheen gives a great performance and when he breaks down crying, in a particular scene, I can't help feeling my heart being torn out to. It really takes the viewer their and brings us close to what people might have been feeling at the time of tragedy in US history. I watched Private Parts and I sure did not feel the way I felt watching this film.

pc95 Talk to Me strikes a reflective chord for much of it's 2 hours and especially towards it's end. It features a run through of the middle lives of 2 radio announcers in Washington DC. The clowning and camaraderie is on display early on, and surely the movie's best energy is during it's first 2/3 of the runtime. Towards the last 20 min or so there's a winding down that's noticeable. Nonetheless Cheadle and Ejiofor are sort of like a ying/yang type relationship as Petey Green and Dewey Hughes. The Cheadle character has been in trouble with the law and street smart, while Ejiofor's has worked hard while clean and also being street smart. This was an interesting sort of a bio/docu-drama outlining the two's friendship from early on spanning 2 decades around the Civil Rights era and later. Good acting amid some slower pacing worth the watch.

moviedude1 I had no idea what this film was about, and, not having been born until 1962, I had no idea who Petey Greene was or what he was about, but if Don Cheadle captured the essence of the man, he did a heck of a job! Here's what I got out of this film: First and foremost, Greene was a man who was NOT afraid to speak his mind. The second thing is that he was a person who had his finger on the pulse of the people. The last thing that stood out was that he was someone who wasn't afraid to go after what he wanted...not just the job, but even when he went on the air after the death of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, and asked for prayers from the people of Washington, D.C., not bloodshed and riots.The last part of this film that got my attention was the relationship between Petey (Cheadle) and Dewey Hughes (Chwetel Ejiofoir), which I felt that this film was angled at from time to time. It drifted towards the end from one to the other and more about Dewey and his rise than about Petey's fall.As a film buff, this one had my attention from the second the first frame started, and as something of the historical side, I'm not sure how accurate it was, but I can only hope that the real Petey Greene was as captivating as this film was.

judy I was initially put off by this movie with its Black caricatures, but then I got into the story of the ups and downs of the friendship of the two main characters. This story if universal, not just about Black people and its too bad more people didn't see it. Don Cheadle's character is great as a man with a talent for radio and really nothing more. Then there is his opposite a man who is capable of most anything and wonders why Cheadle's character doesn't want more. It's a classic dilemma that a lot of us face; I know I do. What do we do when we have a friend who could achieve so much more but doesn't want to. These characters also show us how opposites need each other. The characters say it best with one really good line of dialog. See this movie on DVD now. 9/10