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This movie interlaces the stories of several characters in a small town united by their use of CB (citizen's band) radio... more | add synopsisPlot Keywords:
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Bigamist truckers and knee length gym socks meet CB radio pirates in Johnathan Demme's slice of Americana moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Paul Le Mat | ... | Spider | |
| Candy Clark | ... | Electra | |
| Bruce McGill | ... | Blood | |
| Roberts Blossom | ... | Papa Thermodyne | |
| Charles Napier | ... | Chrome Angel | |
| Ann Wedgeworth | ... | Dallas Angel | |
| Marcia Rodd | ... | Portland Angel | |
| Alix Elias | ... | Hot Coffee | |
| Richard Bright | ... | Smilin' Jack | |
| Ed Begley Jr. | ... | The Priest | |
| Michael Rothman | ... | Cochise | |
| Michael Mahler | ... | The Hustler | |
| Harry Northup | ... | The Red Baron | |
| Will Seltzer | ... | Warlock | |
| Leila Smith | ... | Grandma Breaker |
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Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Spider and Cochese are in Spider's car after pulling down the Nazis' antenna, Cochese says, "Oh Spider, I don't think I can take much more of this," but his lips aren't moving. moreFAQ
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This quite funny but nevertheless deep film, along with the great 'Melvin and Howard' can be viewed as part of the ongoing saga of Paul Le Mat, the guy who played the hotrodding eternal teenager, John Milner, in 'American Graffiti.' Le Mat is perfect for these films because he embodies a uniquely American mixture of down to earth hipness, non-cynicism and hard edged goodwill. He is somewhere between Audie Murphy and Steve McQueen with some touches of Elvis and Jerry Lewis thrown in. Demme uses him as the springboard for his explorations of what's authentic and non-cynical in ordinary American life.
All the events in 'Citizen's Band' are connected by the CB radios all the characters use. This allows for events that happen to characters far apart from each other (such as the bigamist trucker and Le Mat), to become connected into the snapshot or slice of life that becomes the film. The characters don't have to necessarily all run into each other, even though some of them do. Oliver Stone's supercynical and ridiculous 'Talk Radio' features a similar set-up. In fact, there, we never actually have to meet any of the on-air personalities.
Demme uses an Altman type setup to show how vast an area of 'craziness' the term 'normal people' covers and how all this can be non-cynical in nature at least as often as it is cynical.