This is one of the worst movies I've ever seen

Yeah, I just watched the film about an hour ago, and it's just as bad as you say. Worst of all was the direction, which screamed AMATUER from the top of it's inept lungs. But you know what, it did manage to reel me in, which even the worst films can sometimes manage to do. But don't rag on Maw; her oneliners were the best thing about this film, and while Busey defined awful, he was actually really effective in the one scene with her.

What about the guy who played Evan? I just found out about this movie by googling an old long-lost friend's name and that's him. So I guess, despite all the bad reviews, I'm going to have to try and find this to watch. I wonder if the video rental places even stock it.

Here's a few tidbits to snack on. Rick Walker shot this movie on the cheap in order to get into the business. He stayed on his morning show through the entire process taking time off only to visit L.A. for the bar and LA shoot. Most of it was filmed in Oklahoma City. The bar scenes were filmed in OKC brick town but only for Gary's point of view. Sam's point of view toward Gary were filed in L.A. as Gary wanted an extra $15,000 cash to come to Oklahoma City. Rick matched the action later in editing. You will not see any shots where you see Gary and the table part of the bar. You only see his POV or him behind the bar. Rick edited with an edit decision list whereas a negative cutter would later assemble the master. That way he could edit it here in the state without having to purchase an expensive Avid suite. The only company with an EDL editor is a film house in Tulsa. He hooked up via DSL to his morning show from Tulsa while he was in the editing process. The wreck in the end is an after thought after test screenings. The end was bland and Rick wanted to spice it up so he went to a salvage yard and found a totaled vehicle that matched his own vehicle. He then staged it in a ditch upside down and spun the tires. Joila, you have a wreck.
Rick's financing was scarce and complicated. He maxed out every credit card he owned. It was much like Bowfinger. He used as many volunteers as possible. Only he knows how much money he spent but he was hoping to sell it at the film market in L.A. He spent a couple years renting a hotel room at the American Film Market. This is where they pick a hotel near a large multi-plex theatre and book the whole facility for a week. Nearly every hotel room is a sales office and a screening is scheduled at the nearby theatre. Completed or nearly completed movies are sold to distributors or studios. Rick was hoping for back end financing deal. Rick was not successful at the market. In the end, he sold it to Lifetime for an undisclosed amount.
Rick wanted to do a second film called, "Mind's Eye". But since someone beat him to the punch he renamed it "Radio Man".

First, as a film school grad, this project was one of our weekend screenwriting seminars. The instructor brought in Rick Walker and some of the crew to explain this project. But as the seminar progressed, it was apparent more and more that this was more camp than organized film making. One of the huge problems with this movie was Gary Busey and his unorthodox demands. For one thing, he demanded way too much in fees at the onset and he wanted even more to actually travel to Oklahoma City to shoot his scenes. So they had to shoot all his scenes out in LA and match them up to reverse shots back in OKC.
Then to make things worse, Rick was on a short string for his budget and shooting schedules. He had to still do his morning show on radio or else face contract problems. He decided to edit the movie in Tulsa because a company had the particular editing system he wanted to use. So he still had to do his radio show via a DSL line in Tulsa. So once all the shooting was done, it was next to impossible to do callbacks as that would imply setting up scenes again or flying in people. He surely could not do any reshoots of Mr. Busey. So that meant he had to reinvent a lot of stuff and is why the end is the way it is.

Then came the major fault of just about all low budget movies. The promotion budget was severely limited. He shopped it several times at the big Film Expo in LA. That means renting a motel room and setting up a promo office. He kept it up a couple years and finally got a buyer in cable networks such as Lifetime.

Now that he made it big time and he's the next George Lucas, he produced Radio Man. Not sure about that one as I've never seen a screening location or date.