Synopsis
The Narrator tells us how the radio influenced his childhood in the days before TV. In the New York City of the late 1930s to the New Year's Eve 1944, this coming-of-age tale mixes the narrator's experiences with contemporary anecdotes and urban legends of the radio stars.
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Cast
- Danny AielloRocco
- Jeff DanielsBiff Baxter
- Mia FarrowSally White
- Seth GreenJoe
- Robert JoyFred
- Julie KavnerMother
- Diane KeatonNew Year's Singer
- Julie KurnitzIrene
- Renée LippinAunt Ceil
- Kenneth MarsRabbi Baumel
Recommendations
- 100
Chicago Sun-Times
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. - 90
Los Angeles Times
A movie that draws you close to it like listeners around that glowing radio dial. - 80
Variety
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. - 80
The New York Times
As free in form as it is generous of spirit. - 80
Empire
Humane and perceptive memoir from Allen, with a pleasant visual nostalgia and the usual slew of impressive performances. - 75
TV Guide Magazine
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. - 63
Washington Post
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. - 50
Washington Post
Without a story or, for that matter, any theme but a kind of aimless nostalgia, you peel and peel away at it only to find, in the end, nothing.
