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Citizens Band
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NR,1hr 38min
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1977
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Synopsis: CB radios provide a human connection between the lives of a collection of varied characters in Jonathan Demme's energizing film that exploits the CB radio craze of the mid-'70s. Chrome Angel (Charles Napier) is a truck driver who has an accident and is laid up recuperating at the home of Hot Coffee (Alix Elias). A road-roaring philanderer, Chrome Angel is a bigamist with a wife, Dallas (Ann Wedgeworth), in Dallas and another wife, Portland (Marcia Rodd), in Portland. The two women converge in a small ... Full Synopsis
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Jonathan Demme's first post-Corman production is one of his best and worthy of rediscovery by anyone who enjoyed the better-known Melvin and Howard. Superficially, Citizens Band is a comedy designed to capitalize on the C.B. radio craze of the mid-'70s, but Demme and screenwriter Paul Brickman manage to turn it into something much deeper. Brickman's richly textured script uses the characters' love ... Full Review
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