Radio Days is an 1987 film directed by Woody Allen. The film looks back on American family life during the Golden Age of Radio.
Allen narrates the stories of his youth, although he is never seen by the audience. The young Allen is portrayed onscreen by Seth Green as "Joe". The film was screened out of competition at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival. Film critic Roger Ebert called it Allen’s answer to Federico Fellini’s Amarcord.
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Radio Days is an 1987 film directed by Woody Allen. The film looks back on American family life during the Golden Age of Radio.
Allen narrates the stories of his youth, although he is never seen by the audience. The young Allen is portrayed onscreen by Seth Green as "Joe". The film was screened out of competition at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival. Film critic Roger Ebert called it Allen’s answer to Federico Fellini’s Amarcord.
The Narrator (Woody Allen) 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.
Even though the narrator's Jewish-American family lives modestly in the Queens neighborhood of Rockaway Beach, each member finds in radio shows an escape from reality through the gossip of celebrities, sports legends of the day, crooners, etc. For the narrator, the action...
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