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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Team Marketing
EAN: 9781404935822
ISBN: 1404935827
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 99
Release Date: September 07, 2004
Running Time: 109 minutes
Sales Rank: 3286
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: October 24, 2003
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Product Description:
Football coach Harold Jones (Harris) befriends Radio (Gooding), a mentally-challenged man who becomes a student at T.L. Hanna High School in Anderson, South Carolina. Their friendship extends over several decades, where Radio transforms from a shy, tormented man into an inspiration to his community.
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Since winning an Academy Award for his exuberant performance in Jerry Maguire, Cuba Gooding Jr. has gotten little but static from critics for a spate of calamitous career choices not seen since '80s-vintage Burt Reynolds. But he triumphantly returns to Oscar-worthy status with his moving performance as Radio, a mentally challenged young man, whom South Carolina high school football coach Harold Jones (Ed Harris) takes under his nurturing wing. This does not play well with the school's patient but questioning principal (Alfre Woodard); the school's biggest athletic booster, who views Radio as a distraction; the man's son, the team's star player, who plays cruel pranks on the trusting Radio; and the Coach's teenage daughter, who feels neglected. Almost all will be won over by Radio's trusting and good nature. Based on a Sports Illustrated story, Radio was adapted for the screen by Mike Rich, screenwriter of The Rookie, and as in that superior family film, the heroics are mostly off the field. As Coach says, with all the subtlety of a blitz, 'We're not the ones been teaching Radio; he's the one been teaching us.' The ending, in which we see the actual Radio, still cheering his team on 26 years later, will melt the most cynical hearts. --Donald Liebenson
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Rating:  - Radio
This wonderful film teaches us one person who cares can make a difference.I loved this movie when I first saw it a few years ago.I purchased it as a gift.I received the movie and a couple of others very quickly.They were packaged beautifully and arrived in great shape.I'll be buying more movies from your huge selection.
Rating: - The heart may also be the brain
A simple film about humanity, humaneness, just plain life and what it should be. The question here is about the place of a mentally disabled person in our society. Is he supposed to be pushed on the side and kept there in the margin or is he supposed to be helped to find a place inside where he could be useful to himself, to others, and happy too? I guess when stated like that the challenge would be accepted by anyone. Asking the question is answering it, as the saying has it. But if we move to the ... Read More
Rating: - "It's Never A Mistake When You Care For Someone" ~ Learning To Measure Things By More Than Just Wins And Loses
I initially didn't want to watch this film, for some reason I don't enjoy films about the mentally challenged. i don't exactly know why, I just don't. However my wife wanted to see it so reluctantly I finally gave in to the pressure and agreed. I must admit I was very pleasantly surprised.
The '03 film 'Radio' turned out to be an inspirational and uplifting true life story ala 'Rudy' that leaves it's audience filming good about themselves and the world around them. Cuba Gooding Jr. is magnificent ... Read More
Rating:  - No Multiple Stars Here
Being the parent of an autistic child and volunteering in a disability ministry, I must confess that I was disappointed by the portrayals in this film.Radio is unrealistic.He can do no wrong.When he does wrong, someone put him up to it.It's hard to believe that he comes out of his shell and starts talking so fluently so quickly. I personally know people of varying degrees and types of disability, and they have bad sides.Based on Radio's portrayed developmental level, they would poke through more clearly. ... Read More
Rating: - Radio was faking it
First, let me say that I loved the movie.It's incredibly touching in many ways, and there are several reviews on Amazon that detail the movie.On the other hand, I think Radio was probably faking it.
Who wouldn't like to be the Big Man on Campus for the rest of their life?
Kid 1: "Whos that?"
Kid 2: "Dude, c'mon! How lame are you? You dont friggin' know Radio?!"
It would be a constant walk through the hallways, getting shout-outs, high-fives, and all sorts of attention.
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