Outspoken ex-convict Ralph ``Petey'' Greene (Don Cheadle) talks his way onto the air at a white-owned radio station in 1960s Washington, D.C. Fueled by the new music and social upheaval of the times, he courts controversy while becoming the voice of the black movement.
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With the chameleonlike Don Cheadle the question is not "Will he win an Oscar?" but rather "When will he win his Oscar?" In the exuberant new film from director Kasi Lemmons, "Talk to Me," he gives just the kind of performance the Academy loves: bigger than life, plagued by demons and based on a real person. (Full review)