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Radio Days

  • 19871987
  • PGPG
  • 1h 28m
IMDb RATING
7.4/10
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Mia Farrow in Radio Days (1987)
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A nostalgic look at radio's golden age focusing on one ordinary family and the various performers in the medium.A nostalgic look at radio's golden age focusing on one ordinary family and the various performers in the medium.A nostalgic look at radio's golden age focusing on one ordinary family and the various performers in the medium.
IMDb RATING
7.4/10
34K
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
8,147
827
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    • Director
      • Woody Allen
    • Writer
      • Woody Allen
    • Stars
      • Mia Farrow
      • Dianne Wiest
      • Mike Starr
    Top credits
    • Director
      • Woody Allen
    • Writer
      • Woody Allen
    • Stars
      • Mia Farrow
      • Dianne Wiest
      • Mike Starr
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 116User reviews
    • 64Critic reviews
    • 74Metascore
    • Nominated for 2 Oscars
      • 3 wins & 11 nominations total

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    Trailer 2:26
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    Top cast

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    Mia Farrow
    Mia Farrow
    • Sally White
    Dianne Wiest
    Dianne Wiest
    • Bea
    Mike Starr
    Mike Starr
    • Burglar
    Paul Herman
    Paul Herman
    • Burglar
    Don Pardo
    Don Pardo
    • 'Guess That Tune' Host
    Martin Rosenblatt
    • Mr. Needleman
    Helen Miller
    Helen Miller
    • Mrs. Needleman
    Danielle Ferland
    • Child Star
    Julie Kavner
    Julie Kavner
    • Tess, the mother
    Julie Kurnitz
    • Irene
    David Warrilow
    • Roger
    Wallace Shawn
    Wallace Shawn
    • Masked Avenger
    Mick Murray
    • Avenger Crook
    • (as Michael Murray)
    William Flanagan
    • Avenger Announcer
    Seth Green
    Seth Green
    • Joe
    Michael Tucker
    Michael Tucker
    • Martin, the father
    Josh Mostel
    Josh Mostel
    • Abe
    Renée Lippin
    • Ceil
    • (as Renee Lippin)
    • Director
      • Woody Allen
    • Writer
      • Woody Allen
    • All cast & crew
    • Production, box office & more at IMDbPro

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    Storyline

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    Did you know

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    • Trivia
      The scene where Joe sees a German U-Boat at the beach has some basis in fact. Some U-Boats were sent to America on secret missions and had to enter New York harbor through the Rockaway inlets to get into Lower New York bay.
    • Goofs
      In one scene, a pack of Camel cigarettes lies on a table, with a clearly visible bar code on the side of the package. The Universal Product Code would not be introduced until the 1970s.
    • Quotes

      [Last lines]

      Narrator: I never forgot that New Year's Eve when Aunt Bea awakened me to watch 1944 come in. I've never forgotten any of those people or any of the voices we would hear on the radio. Though the truth is, with the passing of each New Year's Eve, those voices do seem to grow dimmer and dimmer.

    • Connections
      Featured in At the Movies: Radio Days/Critical Condition/Outrageous Fortune/Restless Natives (1987)
    • Soundtracks
      The Flight of the Bumblebee
      (1899-1900)

      Music by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

      Performed by Harry James

      Courtesy of CBS Records

      Played during the opening credits

    User reviews116

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    Top review
    8/10
    those were the days
    Woody Allen fondly recalls that age before TV when radio was the nucleus around which family life revolved (and evolved). It's an affectionate (and, for Allen, atypically nostalgic) period piece, sketching with disarming humor the memories, anecdotes, and fantasies of an East Coast childhood in the 1930s and 1940s, narrated by the director himself and set against a collection of once-popular radio songs and programs. Television could never trigger such glowing memories, because TV numbs the imagination while the invisibility of the radio voice tends to enhance it. Allen includes plenty of jokes to that effect: the heroic Masked Avenger turns out, off microphone, to be the portly Wallace Shawn; the nonsense song Mairsie Doates recalls a neighbor brandishing a meat cleaver on a downtown rampage. The comedy is never more than feather-light, demanding nothing from its audience except uncomplicated laughter, but this is one filmmaker who has always been more effective on a smaller scale.
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    Details

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    • Release date
      • January 30, 1987 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Official site
      • MGM
    • Languages
      • English
      • Spanish
      • Italian
    • Also known as
      • Días de radio
    • Filming locations
      • Radio City Music Hall - 1260 6th Avenue, Rockefeller Center, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
    • Production companies
      • Jack Rollins & Charles H. Joffe Productions
      • Orion Pictures
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • $16,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $14,792,779
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $1,522,423
      • Feb 1, 1987
    • Gross worldwide
      • $14,792,779
    See detailed box office info on IMDbPro

    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 28 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Mono

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