Talk to Me

Talk to Me (2007) is a biographical drama you can watch online on iFILM. Don Cheadle plays Petey Greene — a foul-mouthed ex-convict with no patience for authority who talks his way out of a prison radio booth and onto the airwaves of a Washington D.C. station. The city starts listening.

His unlikely partner is program director Dewey Hughes (Chiwetel Ejiofor), buttoned-up and ambitious where Petey is raw and reckless. One chases the truth without a filter; the other chases ratings and ad money. When word of King's assassination hits in 1968, it's Petey's voice that talks a furious city back from the edge. Taraji P. Henson, Martin Sheen and Cedric the Entertainer round out the cast, with Kasi Lemmons directing.

What lingers isn't the rise-to-fame arc but the friction between two men who need each other and can't quite forgive what success does to them. Stream Talk to Me (2007) online on iFILM.