

Radio Days
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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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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $16M
- Box office
- $14.8M
- Language
- English
- beach
- world war ii
- musical
- nostalgia
- coming of age
- coney island
- working class
- binoculars
- 1940s
- 1930s
- cigarette girl
- old time radio
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- PremiereUnited States Film Festival24 Jan 1987
- TheatricalPG30 Jan 1987
BrazilBR
- Theatrical1411 Jun 1987
- Physical1226 Aug 2008
FranceFR
- PremiereCannes Film Festival16 May 1987
IrelandIE
- TheatricalPG31 Jul 1987
ItalyIT
- Theatrical20 May 1987
NetherlandsNL
- Theatrical615 Oct 1987
- Physical6DVD10 Oct 2007
PortugalPT
- TheatricalM/1228 Aug 1987
SlovakiaSK
- TV12TV Markíza9 Dec 1996
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Radio Days was released on 30 January 1987.
Audience reviews
2- K8/10
kevin2019
11/22/2024
"Radio Days" is packed with gentle and understated comedic flourishes combined with some genuinely arresting moments of tragedy and major life changing global events. However, you could argue Woody Allen is tastefully romanticising such things as the family unit being central to daily life too much. After all, were families ever this much chaotic fun? Was life ever lived this way? Was there ever this degree of togeth…
- C7/10
CinemaSerf
5/30/2025
“Joe” (Seth Green) is reminiscing about his childhood in a New York where he lived with his mum and dad and her extended family in some basic and cramped accommodation - it’s a bit like the “Bucket” household from the world of Roald Dahl, replete with cabbage soup, too. This family, and their neighbours, live their lives according to a pattern of routines. From day to day and week to week, they gossip, eavesdrop, wor…
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