Radio Days

Name: Radio Days
Genre: Comedy
Released: January 30, 1987
Duration: 88 min
Rating: 74
Cast: Danielle Ferland, Don Pardo, Helen Miller, Julie Kavner, Julie Kurnitz

1987

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Orion Pictures | Release Date: January 30, 1987 | PG

Starring: Danielle Ferland, Don Pardo, Helen Miller, Julie Kavner, Julie Kurnitz, Martin Rosenblatt, Mike Starr, Paul Herman

Summary: A nostalgic look at radio's golden age focusing on one ordinary family and the various performers in the medium.

Director: Woody Allen

Genre(s): Comedy

Rating: PG

Runtime: 88 min

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Roger Ebert

Radio Days is so ambitious and so audacious that it almost defies description. It's a kaleidoscope of dozens of characters, settings and scenes - the most elaborate production Allen has ever made - and it's inexhaustible, spinning out one delight after another. Read full review

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Gene Siskel

The brilliance of the film is the way in which Allen pays tribute to radio while subtly condemning television, which, he seems to be arguing, has partially robbed us of our imaginations. Read full review

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Although lacking the bite and depth of his best work, Radio Days is one of Woody Allen's most purely entertaining pictures. It's a visual monolog of bits and pieces from the glory days of radio and the people who were tuned in. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

Allen presents a host of anecdotes and remembrances of things past, but one wishes it could have been slightly more cohesive. One of the joys in this picture is the soundtrack of songs of the period that will delight anyone who lived in those radio days. Read full review

Pauline Kael

It's pure nostalgia--the past sweetened and trivialized. The mood is soft regret: he treats the old songs as a value that we've lost.

Rita Kempley

Childhood anecdotes and charming vignettes are set against bright-light, big-city sets, a-dazzle with beautiful players. All that doesn't disguise the emptiness at the center of Radio Days, which misses the momentum that comes with a plot. Read full review

Rick Groen

Radio Days, is an occasionally charming trifle, a cinematic bauble that - held up to just the right light, soft and undemanding - sparkles quite prettily. But add just a hint of the glare cast by a raised expectation, and this lightweight thing fades right out of view. [30 Jan 1987]

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