meet wally sparks

Director: peter baldwin

Actor: rodney dangerfield,debi mazar,david ogden stiers,burt reynolds

Data Published: Thu Jan 23 1997

Genres: Comedy

Key Words: television talk show,conservative,crude humor,governor,scandal

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119644/

WIKI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meet_Wally_Sparks

Description: Meet Wally Sparks is a movie starring Rodney Dangerfield, Debi Mazar, and David Ogden Stiers. Wally Sparks is a tabloid television show reporter, who's trying to boost ratings on his show. He goes to the Governor's mansion to...

Plot: Wally Sparks (Rodney Dangerfield) is the host of a sleazy tabloid-style TV talk show who makes Jerry Springer seem gentle by comparison. His show has become so foul that he's alienated his not-especially-discriminating viewers, and his ratings are taking a nosedive. Lenny Spencer (Burt Reynolds), head of the network carrying his show, gives Wally an ultimatum—he has a week to clean up the content and boost his ratings, or his show gets cancelled. Wally's producer, Sandy Gallo (Debi Mazar), comes up with an idea—Floyd Preston (David Ogden Stiers) is the governor of Georgia and a staunch conservative known for his attacks on the lowbrow content of Wally's show, so what better way to demonstrate that Wally is trying to change his ways than having Preston on as a guest? In order to persuade Preston to appear, Wally attends a reception at the Governor's Mansion, where he makes the mistake of getting in a drunken game of strip poker with Preston's wife, Emily (Cindy Williams), while somehow involving himself in a plot to blackmail the Governor. And the complications keep coming when Wally's son, Dean, begins a romantic relationship with the Governor's daughter.