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Straight Talk is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Barnet Kellman released in USA on 3 april 1992 with Dolly Parton
Straight Talk (1992)
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Add to a movie listStraight Talk is an 1992 American comedy-film distributed by Hollywood Pictures, directed by Barnet Kellman and starring Dolly Parton and James Woods. Parton did not receive star-billing in any other theatrically released films until the 2012 film Joyful Noise, alongside Queen Latifah. Her previous starring films had been 9 to 5 (1980), The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982), Rhinestone (1984), and Steel Magnolias (1989).
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Shirlee Kenyon is a down-home country girl who, through a series of mistakes, is hired as a radio talk show host. Her show is wildly successful but her success is based on the lie that she is actually a clinical psychologist. She has to learn that giving advice and following it can be harder than she thought.Actors
Dolly Parton
(Shirlee Kenyon)
James Woods
(Jack Russell)
Griffin Dunne
(Alan Riegert)
Michael Madsen
(Steve)
John Sayles
(Guy Girardi)
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