Radio
Movie Rental Review
United States, 2003
Genres: Drama
Running Length: 1:49
Starring: Cuba Gooding Jr., Ed Harris, S. Epatha Merkerson, Riley Smith, Debra Winger
Directed by: Michael Tollin
Produced by: Herb Gains, Todd Garner, Caitlin Scanlon
US Release Date: October 24th, 2003 (wide).
MPAA Classification: PG for mild language and thematic elements.
U.S. Distributor: Revolution Studios
Movie Rental Review Rating: 9/10
Radio Radio is a heart felt story about getting a chance to do the right thing. Coach Jones (Ed Harris) is a prominent high school football coach in a South Carolina town. He begins a mentoring relationship with a man named Radio (Cuba Gooding Jr.) who was illiterate and mentally challenged. Before Coach Jones, Radio was the target of ridicule and torment by all members of their small community. This relationship turned a few heads and raised a few eyebrows in 1964; Coach Jones never left Radio’s side. He had Radio assist him with the football team; he had him attend his class, bailed him out of jail and was there for him when his mother passed away. So many scenes brought tears to my eyes. The story Coach Jones told to his daughter Mary Helen (Sarah Drew) about the boy under the front porch; when Radio lost his mother; when Johnny (Riley Smith) presented Radio with a team jacket. However, the one that really got me was Coach Jones was explaining that folks think they have been teaching Radio when it was the other way around, Radio was teaching us. How Radio treated us all the time is how we wished we would treat others part of the time.
The Movie Rental Review found this movie to be an amazing true story about how doing the right thing is never bad.
