"A high-spirited, elegantly deadpan comedy, with a mellow, light touch. Paul Brickman, who wrote the screenplay, had an idea worthy of Preston Sturges: that the psychology of those who operate CB radio units might be like the psychology of crank phone callers and breathers and obscene phone callers, too--that as disembodied voices, with identities borrowed from pop fantasies, and signal names to confirm their new self-image, people could live another life on the public airwaves.... The story is about the people in a Southwestern town and the collisions of their free-floating ids. Paul Le Mat is the hero--a small-town Boy Scout who never grew up. Marcia Rodd is a trucker's hard-bitten wife and Ann Wedgeworth is a trucker's softheaded wife; these two become a tear-stained running gag when it turns out that they're both married to the same trucker. Jonathan Demme directed, in a soft, subdued style--the film is lyrical and wiggy at the same time. It has the consistent vision of a classic comedy; it undercuts the characters' illusions without a breath of ill will. With jutting-jawed Charles Napier as the impulsive, generous bigamist, (and) Alix Elias as the plump, giggly hooker whose CB name is Hot Coffee...." Pauline Kael