Handle with Care (The Great American Citizen's Band) (1977)

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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 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 town where Spider (Paul Le Mat) and his embittered brother Blood (Bruce McGill) are both trying to date Electra (Candy Clark). The characters' CB monikers weave the characters into the same CB waveband, exemplifying the interconnectedness of an American subculture. ~ Paul Brenner, Rovi

Rating, Runtime: PG, 1 hr. 38 min.
Directed By: Jonathan Demme
Written By: Paul Brickman
Genres: Drama, Comedy

In Theaters: Sep 29, 1977 Wide

Critic Reviews

Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.Com
This charming film (aka Handle With Care) was a commercial failure, but it holds up well and resonates more strongly when examined vis-a-vis Demme's other communal films, Melvin and Howard and Something Wild.
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, Spirituality and Practice
An engaging and modest movie about how individuals in a small town are drawn together through their CBs.

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