It's a period peice, for 1951. Martin ( keanu reeves) works at a radio station, where they still put on soap stories. With a wacky station owner, who pretends to be two different people, so that one can be the good brother, and one can be the mean brother. And who keeps calling in the bomb threats?? When they want to juice up the ratings, they hire pedro carmichael (falk), who is really good at turning real life events into his on air "stories". When martin falls for aunt julia (hershey), the whole story is captured on microphone for the listening audience. It's all done tongue in cheek, but would probably be considered offensive now; it was made at a time when the audience was given credit for getting the joke; now, just saying the lines as written would probably be considered offensive and not given the green light. Poor martin is so in love with julia, and she seems to crave the excitement from the guys in the big city. This is really good! It runs kind of like an old fashioned woody allen film. Good mix of story and humor. It makes you willing to completely buy into the story as shown. Which is all completely over the top. But it's exotic and fun, so you don't question things. Directed by jon amiel. Got a bafta for "the singing detective", a brit series.
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