Straight Talk Details

1992

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70
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A poor country girl becomes Chicago's hottest radio celebrity. Read more

Starring	Dolly Parton, James Woods
Director	Barnet Kellman
Genres	Children, Comedy

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Straight Talk

A poor country girl becomes Chicago's hottest radio celebrity.

Starring	Dolly Parton, James Woods
Director	Barnet Kellman
Studio	WALT DISNEY STUDIOS HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Run time	DVD: 1 hr 27 mins
Certificate
Genres	Children, Comedy
Language	DVD: English
Released	DVD: 01 Mar 2004 Production year: 1992
Format	DVD

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Both Dolly Parton and James Woods are perfectly cast as the bogus radio agony aunt and the sleazy reporter investigating her in this fun romantic comedy, filmed on location in Chicago. Woods's reporter wants to expose Parton as a sham, but soon finds he wants to get her into bed along the way. What makes this work so well is the sparring double act of the two leads, especially Woods, who by now has honed his grumpy cynic role to perfection.
- Radio Times
- Posted 29 Jan 2006
Scuzzy Chicago news-hound Jack Russell (Woods) is ordered to sniff out the truth about radio agony aunt Doctor Shirlee... read more on Time Out
- Time Out
- Posted 04 Nov 2008
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7 out of 13 people found this review helpful

I liked it but....

This is a good fun comedy, but it lacks that little bit of dark material to make it really good. The weakness lies in the script - it is most happy when playing on the 'country girl conquers the Big Smoke with a little home spun wisdom.' However, when it raises serious issues - e.g. the ability of people to give advice to those they don't know - it takes a mixed approach in whether it addresses them or not. This means that when it does have moments of dark realism they are a little jarring and inappropriate. However, the film is enjoyable mainly thanks to the exuberant playing of its cast. Parton doesn't put a foot wrong in her role as... well, herself, while the great James Woods is superb as a grumpy urban cynic introduced to a more simple (or simplistic?) way of looking at life. My only other comment is simply that I was shocked to find this film is from 1992 - all through it I was convinced this must have been filmed in the early/mid 80's!
- - Darth Egregious from London
  - Posted 17 Aug 2005 14:47
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7 out of 13 people found this review helpful

I liked it but....

This is a good fun comedy, but it lacks that little bit of dark material to make it really good. The weakness lies in the script - it is most happy when playing on the 'country girl conquers the Big Smoke with a little home spun wisdom.' However, when it raises serious issues - e.g. the ability of people to give advice to those they don't know - it takes a mixed approach in whether it addresses them or not. This means that when it does have moments of dark realism they are a little jarring and inappropriate. However, the film is enjoyable mainly thanks to the exuberant playing of its cast. Parton doesn't put a foot wrong in her role as... well, herself, while the great James Woods is superb as a grumpy urban cynic introduced to a more simple (or simplistic?) way of looking at life. My only other comment is simply that I was shocked to find this film is from 1992 - all through it I was convinced this must have been filmed in the early/mid 80's!
- - Darth Egregious from London
  - Posted 17 Aug 2005 14:47
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