Talk to Me is a 1996 made-for-TV

Television movie

A television film is a feature film that is a television program produced for and originally distributed by a television network, in contrast to...

 drama film

Drama film

A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...

 that features Yasmine Bleeth

Yasmine Bleeth

Yasmine Amanda Bleeth is an American actress. Her television roles include Caroline Holden in the long-running series Baywatch.-Early life and career:...

 and Ricky Paull Goldin

Ricky Paull Goldin

Richard "Ricky" Paull Goldin is an American actor. He is currently in the cast of All My Children as Jake Martin since April 2008...

.

Plot

The movie involves Diane Shepherd
(Yasmine Bleeth

Yasmine Bleeth

Yasmine Amanda Bleeth is an American actress. Her television roles include Caroline Holden in the long-running series Baywatch.-Early life and career:...

) who is an idealistic talk-show
producer who is conscience-stricken when she clashes with her
ratings-obsessed and ruthless talk-show executive boss. Diane is
forced to produce a tantalizing program about a prostitute which
potentially harms the prostitute, who is trying to turn her life
around.

Young Kelly Reilly (Jenny Lewis

Jenny Lewis

Jennifer Diane Lewis , is an American singer-songwriter musician and actress. She was the primary vocalist of the indie rock band Rilo Kiley, and has released two solo albums. She currently performs as part of the duo Jenny & Johnny with boyfriend Johnathan Rice...

) is the teenaged mother
whose life is exposed on The Howard Grant Show. Kelly
desperately wants to lead a normal life, but society is
dragging her back down.

Cast

• Yasmine Bleeth
  Yasmine Bleeth
  Yasmine Amanda Bleeth is an American actress. Her television roles include Caroline Holden in the long-running series Baywatch.-Early life and career:...
  
   as Diane Shepherd
• Jenny Lewis
  Jenny Lewis
  Jennifer Diane Lewis , is an American singer-songwriter musician and actress. She was the primary vocalist of the indie rock band Rilo Kiley, and has released two solo albums. She currently performs as part of the duo Jenny & Johnny with boyfriend Johnathan Rice...
  
   as Kelly Reilly
• Peter Scolari
  Peter Scolari
  Peter Scolari is an American television, film and stage actor best known for his roles in the television shows Newhart, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show, and Bosom Buddies.-Career:...
  
   as Howard Grant
• Ricky Paull Goldin
  Ricky Paull Goldin
  Richard "Ricky" Paull Goldin is an American actor. He is currently in the cast of All My Children as Jake Martin since April 2008...
  
   as Dwayne
• Veronica Hamel
  Veronica Hamel
  Veronica Hamel is an American actress.- Biography :After Hamel graduated from Temple University, she worked as a secretary for a company that manufactured ironing board covers. She began a fashion modeling career after being discovered by Eileen Ford...
  
   as Sadie
• Brenda Devine as Jeri Lonigan
• Dawn Greenhalgh as Brenda Reilly
• Robin Brille as Lucille-Ann
• Dorion Davis as Krystal
• Tracy Dawson as Thelma
• Heather Dick as Kathleen
• Terri Drennan as Bo-Peep
• D. Garnet Harding as Alan
• Kate Hennig as Stacy
• Karen Hines as Myra
• Lisa Hynes as Wanda
• Martin Julien as Randy
• Brian Kaulback as Cameraman
• Scott Wickware as Bill
• Marilyn Smith as Lana
• Laina Timberg as Joey
• R.D. Reid as Vernon
• Martin Roach
  Martin Roach
  Martin Jamie Roach is a Canadian actor. He is perhaps best known for his roles on Aaron Stone as T. Abner Hall and in the films Cube Zero, Diary of the Dead, and The Lookout.-Filmography:* Producing Parker as Dr...
  
   as Alex
• Cliff Saunders as Chyron
• Alison Sealy-Smith as Miriam
• Shakura S'Aida as Scarecrow
• James Kidnie as Redneck
• Walter Alza as Pusher
• Suzanne Coy as Prostitute
• Dominic Cuzzocrea as Driver
• Reg Dreger as Manager #2
• Sam Malkin as Director
• Ralph Small as Manager #1
• Jeff Topping as Son
• Anne Wessels as Elegant Woman
• Louis Wrightman as Junkie
• Kevin Jubinville
• Philip Akin
  Philip Akin
  Philip Akin is a Canadian actor who has been active for over thirty years in stage, film, and television. He has had featured roles in major American films such as The Sum of All Fears, S.W.A.T., and Get Rich or Die Tryin’...
  
  
• Brad Austin
• Alex Carter
• Kirsten Kieferle
• Stavroula Logothettis
• Peter Manning Robinson

Production credits

• Graeme Campbell
  Graeme Campbell (director)
  Graeme Neil Campbell is an award-winning film director, writer and editor.- Life and career :Campbell was born in Montreal, Quebec to William and Thelma Campbell. His body of work lies mostly in films made for television as well as mini-series', although he has transitioned into episodic...
  
   (Director)
• Dan Bronson (Writer)
• Steve White (Executive Producer)
• John Perrin Flynn and Jim Lichtenstein (Producers)
• Megan Callaway (Co-producer)

Trivia

Ricky Paull Goldin

Ricky Paull Goldin

Richard "Ricky" Paull Goldin is an American actor. He is currently in the cast of All My Children as Jake Martin since April 2008...

, who acted in this movie along with Yasmine Bleeth

Yasmine Bleeth

Yasmine Amanda Bleeth is an American actress. Her television roles include Caroline Holden in the long-running series Baywatch.-Early life and career:...

, was engaged to be married to Yasmine, but the wedding was called off after the wedding invitations had already been
printed.

External links

• imdb link