Radio

Radio (2003)

  • 36% of critics liked it
    (116 reviews)

  • 83% of users liked it
    (153,371 ratings)

Hollywood filmmaker Michael Tollin directs the sports drama Radio, based on a true story and adapted for the screen by Mike Rich (The Rookie). Set in a small South Carolina town during the '60s, the film stars Ed Harris as Harold Jones, a high school football coach who barely has time to spend with… More

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PG, 1 hr. 49 min.
Directed By
Michael Tollin, Alfre Woodard
Written By
Mike Rich
Genres
Drama
In Theaters
Oct 24, 2003 Wide
On DVD
Jan 27, 2004
Sony Pictures Entertainment

Critic Reviews

  • Ed Park, Village Voice

    Based-on- a-true-story kitschfest.

  • Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper

    [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.

  • Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post

    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.

  • Philip Kennicott, Washington Post

    A train wreck of a film lying inert where the tracks of the Feel Good Line cross the Path of Good Intentions.

  • Claudia Puig, USA Today

    Though probably well-intentioned, Radio comes off as manipulative of its audience and exploitative of the mentally challenged.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Jeff "


    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,… More

  • Eric S


    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… More

  • ♥˩ƳИИ &


    This movie is based on a true story and that makes it even more amazing. I loved this movie. It was funny, heartwarming, and heartbreaking too. This has to be my favorite movie with Cuba Gooding Jr. He did such an amazing job, his best work yet. This movie gives a lot to learn from.… More

  • Coxxie M


    Cuba Goodings pretty good at playing a retarded guy, but Dane Crooks been doin it for way too long!!

  • Josh L


    A little too melodramatic, but a decent movie with good performances.

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