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A middle-aged man looks back on his childhood in Rockaway, N.Y., in a series of vignettes focused on the golden days of radio. Joe (Woody Allen), who narrates, is portrayed as a teenager in the...
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Radio Days. 1987 · 1 hr 29 min. PG. Comedy. Set in the 1940s, the nostalgic story of an ordinary familiy in Queens, New York, is told alongside vignettes of radio's golden era of performers.
(The one legend Allen leaves out is the scandal of the kiddie-show host who growled "That oughta hold the little bastards" into an open mike.) "Radio Days" cuts back and forth between the adolescent hero's working-class neighborhood in Brooklyn and the glamorous radio world of Manhattan.
Several generations of a family packed into a pre-War Rockaway house always have the radio on. The fearless Masked Avenger, breakfast-show socialites (and philanderers) Roger and Irene, and Sally the Cigarette Girl, are almost important as, say, whether the Pacific is a better ocean than the Atlantic, or even what your dad actually does for a ...
Dec 5, 2007 · Radio Days (1987) is Woody Allen's paean to the golden age of radio, a kaleidoscopic and autobiographical look at the radio programs that were an essential part of his childhood. Seth Green plays Allen's alter ego, an adolescent growing up surrounded by his extended family in Brooklyn during World War II.
Apr 13, 2020 · Set in Rockaway at the outset of World War II, RADIO DAYS invites the audience to partake in the hilarious yet moving adventures of a family, whose...
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. The Narrator tells us how the radio influenced his childhood in the days before TV.
