Citizens Band

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 ...more

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 of C.B. communication as a metaphor for the fact that the community they live in is full of ...more