Handle with Care (The Great American Citizen's Band) (1977)
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100% of critics liked it
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68% of users liked it
(211 ratings)
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… 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
- Directed By
- Jonathan Demme
- Written By
- Paul Brickman
- Genres
- Drama, Comedy
PG,
- In Theaters
- Sep 29, 1977 Wide
Critic Reviews
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Fernando F. Croce, CinePassion
A vivacious poem of American restlessness
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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.
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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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Cast
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Paul Le Mat
as Spider
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Candy Clark
as Electra/Pam
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Ann Wedgeworth
as Dallas Angel/Joyce Rissley
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Bruce McGill
as Blood/Dean
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Marcia Rodd
as Portland Angel/Connie
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Charles Napier
as Chrome Angel/Harold
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Alix Elias
as Hot Coffee Debbie
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Roberts Blossom
as Papa Thermadyne Father
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Richard Bright
as Smilin'Jack/Garage Owner
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Ed Begley Jr
as Priest
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Michael Rothman
as Cochise
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Michael Mahler
as Hustler
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Harry Northrup
as Red Baron
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Will Seltzer
as Warlock
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Arthur French
as Tony
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Arthur Godfrey
as Himself
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Gary Goetzman
as RV Salesman
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Robert Reece
as Les
- Harry Northup
- Jonathan Demme
