Don Cheadle portrays the one and only Ralph Waldo "Petey" Green, Jr. in Talk to Me,
directed by Kasi Lemmons (Eve's Bayou) from screenplay by Michael Genet and Rick
Famuyiwa. Petey's story is funny, dramatic, inspiring - and real. In the mid-to-late
1960s, in Washington, DC, the newly minted ex-con talks his way into an on-air radio
gig. He forges a friendship and a partnership with Dewey Hughes (Chiwetel Ejiofor)
that will redefine and empower both men.

All that remains for Leonard Schiller is his work. His one enduring goal in life is to
finish the novel whose completion has eluded him for ten years. With his earlier
books out of print, he has learned to starve himself of the desire for the success he
was once so close to, though beneath this practice lies a pull for his work to be
rediscovered. Schiller’s main contact to the world is through his daughter, Ariel,
though he must hide his disappointment that at 39 she remains befuddled by life, still
looking for love and a father for a longed-for child. Schiller’s world is shaken when
Heather Wolfe, a smart, ambitious graduate student, convinces him that she can use
her thesis on his work to bring him back into the literary world spotlight.