Cuba Gooding Jr.
Radio
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- This film may be as predictable as a Hallmark card, but it's as heartwarming, too. Radio is a nice, old-fashioned family movie about the importance of kindness. The characters learn that some things are more important than being smart. The audience learns that that lesson can apply to movies as well as people.
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Oct 24, 2003 · The role is tricky for an actor; Gooding wants to make Radio lovable without being grotesquely cute, and mostly he succeeds, although Gooding is by instinct an expansive actor (the kind of man you imagine underlines his signature), and maybe a calmer actor like Ice Cube would have been a good choice.
Oct 24, 2003 · In a racially divided town, coach Jones (Ed Harris) spots a mentally disabled African-American student named Radio (Cuba Gooding Jr.) near his practice field and is inspired to befriend him.
- (122)
- Michael Tollin
- PG
- Cuba Gooding Jr.
Oct 24, 2003 · Radio: Directed by Michael Tollin. With Cuba Gooding Jr., Ed Harris, Alfre Woodard, S. Epatha Merkerson. The story of a high school coach and the developmentally challenged man who he took under his wing.
- (44K)
- Biography, Drama, Sport
- Michael Tollin
- 2003-10-24
Lesson of kindness permeates inspiring true story. Read Common Sense Media's Radio review, age rating, and parents guide.
- Alfre Woodard, Cuba Gooding Jr., Ed Harris
- Michael Tollin
- Columbia Tristar
Radio is a 2003 American semi-biographical sports drama film directed by Mike Tollin, and inspired by the 1996 Sports Illustrated article "Someone to Lean On" by Gary Smith. [1] [2] The article and the movie are based on the true story of T. L. Hanna High School football coach Harold Jones ( Ed Harris ) and a young man with an intellectual ...
Movie Review. A respected, South Carolina high school football coach puts his reputation on the line by extending kindness to an illiterate, mentally challenged young black man. Coach Jones sees him, day after day, pushing a shopping cart filled with simple treasures past the practice field.
7 out of 7 found this helpful. Was this review helpful? Sign in to vote. Permalink. The entire time I was watching this movie I had no idea it was based on a true story and that a real, James Robert 'Radio' Kennedy exists.
