Academy Award nominee Don Cheadle portrays the one and only Ralph Waldo “Petey” Greene Jr. in this funny, feel-good and inspiring true story.  Ex-convict Greene talks his way into an on-air radio gig with program director Dewey Hughes (Chiwetel Ejiofor), and his unprecedented “tell it like it is” style breaks all the rules while electrifying a city (DC)and bringing a nation together when it needed it the most.

Washington television and radio talk show host Ralph Waldo “Petey” Greene was an ex-con and ex-drug addict who made his way from the Lorton penitentiary all the way to dinner at the White House. Greene was known for his outlandish humor and wardrobe and his outsize efforts to help the young, the old, the poor and the former cons like himself.

The film begins late in Greene’s term at Lorton and is centered around his friendship with Dewey Hughes. Hughes, then the program director at WOL, is the man who put Greene on the air and became his life-long friend.

Greene died in 1984.  He left an amazing legacy captured by this film.