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Summary: A Great Movie!!!
Review: Radio is a really great movie! The movie tells the story of a football coach. His name is Coach Harold Jones. He opens his heart to this mentally challenged man named James Robert Kennedy nicknamed Radio that no one understands. Coach Jones lets Radio help out with the football team. Radio infulences the football team and most of the city. Eventually everyone opens their heart to Radio and accepts him. This a very good movie! I even cried watching this. This is one of the best movies of 2003!
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Summary: A GREAT CUP
Review: This a great, family friendly movie with no nudity, cursing or simulated sex. Proving again that the best formula for success is a great script, excellent acting, a message delivered with sensitivity, not with sledgehammer to the face and good direction.Cuba Goodling is stunningly good in his portrayal of James Robert Kennedy, a mentally retarded man that they simply start calling RADIO. The end is a real Tear-jerker moment when they show RADIO 26 years later still there, forever an 11th grader. There are interesting moments that take place in the barber shop. Towns people gather there to discuss town events and get the low-down from coach Harold Jones. When things are going good, the coffee is good, and coach says GOOD CUP. When things didn't go so good, coach says THAT WAS A LOSEY CUP.
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Summary: good acting, ok movie
Review: I grew up in Anderson, SC and went to T.L. Hanna high school with the real Radio, and I can attest that Cuba Gooding's portrayal is perfect. But this movie is sappy and bland. It has some nice moments, and it's great if you need a good clean movie to watch with your grandmother. That's as much as I can say for it.
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Summary: A Chick Flick For Guys
Review: This is one of the better feel-good movies I've seen lately. Ed Harris does a nice job of getting the viewer to care about the characters, and Cuba turns in a very convincing performance as a mentally disabled man with a heart of gold and a passion for sports and radios. If you liked Forrest Gump, you will probably love this movie.
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Summary: A movie about human worth and caring
Review: I liked this movie's good heart and simple story telling. It really isn't a football movie, nor is it a struggle of good versus evil. And though it has a few standard story telling elements, the real issue here is seeing where real human value is and how that should shape our priorities. Cuba Gooding Jr. plays the title character quite well, especially when we see the actual man over the closing credits and can compare. However, this kind of innocence and decency embodied in this story's depiction of Radio is often dismissed in our ironic age. Too bad, because the helpless and defeated rage Gooding is able to express when hRadio loses his mother is absolutely beautiful. (If you have lost your mother you will absolutely understand the truth of the scene.) Ed Harris is terrific as Coach Jones who, for reasons no one really understands - including himself - is taken with helping this lonely and lost creature who can barely speak and sees him as a person of value. He takes care of him for reasons that even Coach Jones himself only vaguely understands at first. In order to make a story, there have to be those characters who reject Radio and see him as a problem. And those actors do well with the roles given them. Of course, at least some of the enemies are won over in the end. Debra Winger and Sarah Drew are fine as the Coach's wife and daughter. And Brent Sexton adds a lot as the assistant football and basketball coach at the high school. S. Epatha Merkerson is very good in her role as Radio's hard working and long suffering mother, and Alfre Woodard does a good job of playing the principal who wants to be supportive of Radio and Coach Jones, but who is also mindful of her responsibilities to other students and parents and who is also interested in her own job and career.
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Summary: Excellent Guy/Girl Movie
Review: Maybe I am being sentimental, but the acting and the story about someone who is not functioning in society being adopted by a high school was, well, just touching. I had tears in my eyes. Gooding is believable, if you had not seen Gooding before, you would think he was like this. I compare his performance to Hoffman's Rainman and I give him a thumb up. Ed Harris' and Debra Winger also pull off great performances as a husband and wife. To see Winger do such a great job in a support role was revealing to me about her flexibility as an actor. The team, the town, the coach all came together to impact a life and that life had an impact on them. Being a true story is really the clincher for me. A must see, everyone will like this movie, it is good for families, school and church viewing activities. Buy Radio, I did.
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Summary: Exellent
Review: Living only twenty minutes away from the Anderson, SC (where the story takes place) one could say I have a biased opinion of this movie, however, I still think it is an excellent potrayal of the effect Radio has had on Anderson and the Upstate of SC. Some aspects of the plot could have been developed more, but then it would of distracted the viewer from the main point of the movie, which is to tell how Anderson came to love and revere this mentally challenged man and how he changed their views. Some critics may scoff at how racial tensions and attitudes were not portrayed because this movie takes place in the South and in the 1970's. However, that is the criticism of those who don't know the South and realize that hate and unrelenting racists are not lurking behind every corner. There's not denying that Radio didn't encounter racism in his life, but the point of the story is to show how he changed this town and their views forever. Today Radio is still a town favorite and he is still giving out hugs and hellos to those he meets. No one is a stranger to this kind and gentle soul who has forever become a part of our hearts.
I highly recommend this movie to all who take pleasure in learning about the everyday people in life who have the greatest impacts on this world.
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Summary: Everyone likes it!
Review: This movie seems beloved by all. It is my firm belief that the trees are obstructing the view of the forest in this situation. The actual story is an outstanding one. The actors have terrific reputations. Sorry, that is it. Hollywood has taken a feel-good article out of the "Living" section of the Sunday newspaper and neutered much of the realism. This story takes place in Anderson, SC but approximately 10% of the characters have Southern accents. In addition, there are NO racial tensions in the movie (I am from the South and love the South, but this movie is set in rural SC in 1976). I wanted to stop agreeing with the antagonists but the script gave me no reason to:
*Radio disrupts practice and takes much of Coach Jones' time.
*Coach Jones interrupts the neglect of his family just long enough to toss them an occasional "how ya' been?"
*Radio sits in class with mainstream students.
*Radio runs into the girls locker room (yes, funny, but if you have a 14 year-old daughter, do you want a grown handicapped man seeing her bathing suit parts?) Another wall I couldn't get over was the instantaneous acceptance of Radio by the town's members. Similar to Wacko calling himself the King of Pop an infinite number of times, Coach Jones dismisses all of Radio's critics with "But, it's Radio!" The brain-dead characters in the movie then echo, "Oh, yes, it is Radio indeed. We love Radio. And we love the King of Pop, Michael Jackson." AAAAAAHHHHHHHHH! The crowd at Radio's first game chants his name. What? He hasn't been to any other games and this is a football town like the one in Varsity Blues. Imagine if, during Varsity Blues, the crowd started paying attention to the handicapped guy in the front instead of the action on the field. That is this whole movie. Crap review, I know, but I don't care that much. Basically, I like the real Radio and think the story is a nice one. The key word in the last sentence is "nice." It belongs in Reader's Digest or a church sermon. It may just be one of those stories that requires narration to explain the school population's zombie-like transformation into Radio adoration. It warms my heart that some people liked the movie subtitled "Slow Rudy," but I just needed more explanation. Needless to say, I don't refer to Halftime Janet's white sister as The King of Pop.
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Summary: Great and Inspirational
Review: This was one of the most heart-warming movies I have ever seen in my life!
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Summary: One of my favorite movies!
Review: This movie reminds me of Rudy. The difference between the movies is where Rudy had to overcome his size to play on the ND football team Radio is a slightly mentally handicapped young man that does not try to improve himself at all. He is content with who he is. It is the people around him who are improved after meeting Radio and coming to understand his dedication to the local football team is actually an inspiration to the entire community.
What the school learned from Radio are the same lessons a good parent should teach their children. Like Rudy this movie will make you stand up and cheer for the underdog. It also will make you laugh and cry, too. Rated PG you need to share this movie with your children ages 8 or 9 and older.
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