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Radio Days - 1987

Genre: Comedy
Run Time: 85 minutes

Film Remarks:

Woody Allen narrates a nostaligic look back at growing up in a close-knit Jewish family in Brooklyn during the fourties. This film is his perspective of his own childhood, majestically projected into a five star movie. The stories in the film are all framed by the radio music and radio shows of the time. The music of Cole Porter, Sinatra, Irving Berlin and more permeate the movie, which makes this also a great movie soundtrack to own.

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Main Cast:

• Mike Starr .... Burglar
• Paul Herman .... Burglar
• Don Pardo .... 'Guess That Tune' Host
• Martin Rosenblatt .... Mr. Needleman
• Helen Miller .... Mrs. Needleman
• Danielle Ferland .... Child Star
• Julie Kavner .... Mother
• Julie Kurnitz .... Irene
• David Warrilow .... Roger
• Wallace Shawn .... Masked Avenger
• Michael Murray .... Avenger Crook
• William Flanagan .... Avenger Announcer
• Seth Green .... Joe
• Michael Tucker .... Father
• Josh Mostel .... Abe

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Editorial:

A sweet and clever combination of anecdotes and autobiography, Radio Days draws heavily on Woody Allen's childhood. Fittingly, the unfolding episodes are woven together by music--lovely hits of the 1940s like "In the Mood" and "That Old Feeling."

Some episodes are built around radio itself (like the burglars who answer the phone in a house they're burgling and win a radio contest), and others center on the life of a young Jewish boy (Seth Green, clearly playing a version of Allen himself as a child). Though light in tone, Radio Days is an ambitious re-creation not simply of an era, but of radio itself. Nowadays radio is little more than a way to sell pop tunes, but it used to transmit dreams; watching this movie, you get a taste of how inspiring this simpler medium could be.

--Bret Fetzer on Amazon.com

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Additional:

Gross: $14.792m (USA)
Release Date: January 30, 1987 (USA) July 31, 1987 (Sweeden), August 7, 1987 (Finland), October 1, 1987 (West Germany)