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Madrugada
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Since: Jan, 2001
Grantz
Since: Nov, 2010
Madrugada
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Since: Jan, 2001

It's a mystery/comedy kind of movie.
This movie is set in what I assume to be the roaring 20s or something, at the golden age of radio (no tv yet). The entire movie is set in a radio tower/station thingie. Basically they're promoting some sort of 24-hour live action marathon or something and the protagonist is this writer who has to think of things on the spot for each segment. He's treated as some kind of a loser I think.
But as all this is happening, a serial killer is on the loose killing off the cast one by one and only the writer seems to notice. He somehow manages to deduce who it is all while trying to conform to the steadily dwindling cast of the show (he writes the stuff remember). And for awhile nobody believes him but his snappy sense of humor gets him through.
In the end, its revealed that the killer lives at the very peak of the radio tower where well I actually don't know at this point but I think he became a mad scientist after being fired/scrutinized by the various victims he's been killing for the whole movie. The cops bust his hideout to find what seems to be a prototype for television (and they get mesmorized by it as a post-modern gag of sorts). The film ends with the leading lady asking about the future of radio and the protagonist remarks that "Radio will never die"
I've only seen this movie like twice in HBO. Please help me.