Don Cheadle is electrifying as 1960s-1970s DJ and television personality Waldo "Petey" Greene in Kasi Lemmons' propulsive biographical drama.
Written by Greene's son, Michael Genet, and Rick Famuyiwa, the film skips Greene's early years in Depression-era Washington, D.C., and picks up his story in the mid-'60s, as he's doing a stretch for armed robbery in Virginia’s Lorton prison. Petey does a daily free-form broadcast over the prison PA system, rapping, slinging profanity with the skill of a master, and generally charming the hell out of his literally captive audience with a shrewd mix of street-smart jokes and anti-establishment jibes. WOL-AM program direc...
Released:
2007
Rated:
R
Length:
118 mins