Radio Days

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Radio Days

PG,

1987,

1h 28m,

Comedy

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92%

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84%

10,000+ Ratings

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38 Reviews

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A middle-aged man looks back on his childhood in Rockaway, N.Y., in a series of vignettes focused on the golden days of radio. Joe (Woody Allen), who narrates, is portrayed as a teenager in the film by Seth Green. Eccentric relatives and radio personalities inhabit various stories, including an unlucky aunt (Dianne Wiest), a cigarette girl (Mia Farrow) with career ambitions, and two burglars with excellent timing. Young Joe involves his friends in a scam to earn a decoder ring.

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Critics Consensus

Woody Allen at his most charmingly nostalgic, Radio Days presents a child's-eye view of the past through rose-colored glasses.

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Joe Clay

The Times (UK)

Dec 14, 2023

A Jewish family in Thirties New York seek airwave escapism in this indulgent but lovely Valentine to the golden age of radio — one of the best Woody Allen films in which he stayed behind the camera.

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Glenn Kenny

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Mar 29, 2023

4/4

It is wildly imaginative, playful, slightly unsettling and very funny. Not funny in a nice way, however.

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Adam Mars-Jones

Independent (UK)

Mar 29, 2023

There is still the feeling, despite the pleasures that Radio Days delivers, that Allen's new films now differ, not as cities differ, but as one suburb differs from the next.

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Stefan Pape

Common Sense Media

May 12, 2024

Radio Days is unlike many of his other films, in that rather than have a linear, more conventional narrative, it's a series of short accounts, tied together by a nostalgic affection for the wireless.

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Philip French

Observer (UK)

Mar 29, 2023

No film this year has given me as much pleasure. I loved every carefully crafted minute.

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Draco W

Feb 3, 2018

I love this film. It's moved me to the 40's. Thank you so much Woody.

Rey S

Nov 10, 2017

One of Woody Allen's best films, Radio Days is a lovingly detailed and authentic portrait of a 1940s childhood in Rockaway Beach, NY, cleverly built around memories of the popular music of the day, which was universally listened to on the radio. The conceit works, and the result is one of Allen's least neurotic, least pretentious, and funniest works. It's interesting that it's a thoroughly Woody Allen movie in which Allen doesn't actually appear, though he does a running voice-over. I'd recommend it even to people who don't usually like Allen movies.

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Harry S

Sep 5, 2017

A nice, upbeat movie about the good old radio days, this isn't Woody Allen's best film, but it's certainly up there.

Ron R

May 25, 2017

I had higher hopes for this after seeing The Purple Rose of Cairo, which I loved. Sadly it had the same monotonous feeling as many of Woody Allen's other films. Too boring. (First and only viewing - 5/25/2017)

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Theodore S

Dec 21, 2014

(F) 8.3 [Woody Allen]

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Synopsis

A middle-aged man looks back on his childhood in Rockaway, N.Y., in a series of vignettes focused on the golden days of radio. Joe (Woody Allen), who narrates, is portrayed as a teenager in the film by Seth Green. Eccentric relatives and radio personalities inhabit various stories, including an unlucky aunt (Dianne Wiest), a cigarette girl (Mia Farrow) with career ambitions, and two burglars with excellent timing. Young Joe involves his friends in a scam to earn a decoder ring.

Director: Woody Allen
Producer: Robert Greenhut
Screenwriter: Woody Allen
Distributor: Orion Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, MGM/UA Home Entertainment Inc.
Production Co: Orion Pictures
Rating: PG
Genre: Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jan 30, 1987, Original
Release Date (Streaming): Sep 16, 2008
Box Office (Gross USA): $11.1M
Runtime: 1h 28m

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