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Radio (2003)
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Cast
as Radio
as Coach Jones
as Principal Daniels
as Maggie
as Honeycutt
as Frank
as Mary Helen
as Johnny
as Tucker
as Linda
as Del
as Don
as Irv the Cop
as Clive
as Waitress
as School Receptionist
as Young Cop
as Football Referee
as Cop No. 2
as Pastor Wickland
as Danny
as Football Referee
as Melodee
as Hallway Kid
as Hoop Referee
as Laird
as Hanna Player
as Hoop Player
as Ron Wilborn
as Joyce Ann Yearwood
as Teacher
as Autograph Kid
as Linda's Friend
as Student
as Assistant Coach
as Woman in Stands
as Football Player
as Honeycutt's Squeeze
as Bus Driver
as Himself
as Himself
as Himself
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Critic Reviews for Radio
All Critics (122) | Top Critics (42) | Fresh (43) | Rotten (79) | DVD (11)
Gooding and Harris' characters are too pure and high-minded to exist in the real world. Yet the small-town sense of community and compassion they evoke is so goodhearted, the movie manages an amiable, if fleeting, rise in spirits.
Lesson of kindness permeates inspiring true story.
Based-on- a-true-story kitschfest.
[Y]et another movie that takes a mentally challenged character and turns him into this kind of deity, this saint-like mascot who everybody else learns life lessons from.
Gooding once again embarrasses himself in public with a performance that knows no shame, a habit he's getting frighteningly at ease with these days.
A train wreck of a film lying inert where the tracks of the Feel Good Line cross the Path of Good Intentions.
Audience Reviews for Radio
How they took a story that is inherently so moving and turned it into a jumbled, lifeless mess is beyond my comprehension. It's as if they let the real life Radio write and direct the film.
Super Reviewer
Radio is yet another in a long list of feel good movies. But I believe that this is the best feel good movie since October Sky. Cuba Gooding Jr. and Ed Harris deliver strong performances here. Cuba Gooding Jr. portrays Robert "Radio" Kennedy a young man with mental problems, and Ed Harris portrays Coach Jones, the coach of the local High School who befriends Radio after Jones's team terrorizes him. Radio At first doesn't open up, but after a while he warms up to Coach Jones. However this friendship is hard because of the obvious mental issues that Radio has. Radio is said to be a distraction by many of the parents, and teachers. However Coach Jones ignores this, and defies what some parents say, and he builds a strong friendship with Radio. The film has all the usual feel good traits of a feel good movie, and is the type of film that you can watch with the entire family and enjoy it for what it is. A very moving stoiry, Cuba Gooding Jr. and Ed Harris performances are believable enough and the rest of the cast do a good job acting alongside Harris and Gooding Jr. Radio mixes elements of a feel good film with sports drama, and theres nothing here that you can't hate. The film is not perfect of course, I mean it's a film we've seen a hundred times before, but Radio is still a good enough film to provide you with two hours of good family entertainment. Radio is a powerful film about what it truly means to be human, and how some situations can bring out the best out of people. A well done film that is a must see, not the best ever made, but definitely a film to watch and make you feel good.
Super Reviewer
This is quite a powerful film. Cuba Gooding Jr. turns in a brilliant performance as the mentally challenged loner James Robert Kennedy nicknamed "Radio" due to his vintage radio collection in which one is always in his hand playing music he loves, and gives a "score" to his lonely existence of pushing a grocery cart up and down the streets of a South Carolina town. Ed Harris is brilliant as usual as the town's popular high school football team coach who takes an interest in Radio upon seeing him watching a practice session. His friendship and concern for Radio develops into something that means much more than football to the very well respected coach, Harold Jones. Jones allows Radio to be part of the team's practices and games on the sidelines, and sit in on his classes in school which opens up a whole new world for James(Radio), and essentially gives him a life that he is in dire need of.
Super Reviewer
Radio Quotes
| James Robert "Radio" Kennedy: | Where my pie!? |
| James Robert "Radio" Kennedy: | Where's my pie!? |