Radio Days (1987)

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Writer/Director: Woody Allen

Stars: Mia Farrow, Dianne Wiest, Seth Green, Jeff Daniels, Julie Kurnitz, Josh Mostel, Diane Keaton, Wallace Shawn, Woody Allen, Danny Aiello



Woody Allen narrates the story of a romanticized boyhood during WWII, a time when the medium of radio was at its zenith.


 The loosely connected vignettes tell the stories of the boy (Seth Green) and his poor Jewish family, his perpetually disappointed and lovelorn aunt (Dianne Wiest), and a young woman striving to make it in show biz (Mia Farrow), interspersed with anecdotes about the personalities that entered America's homes through the airwaves every day. 


Allen shows us what radio meant to the people of that time, leaving even those of us who are too young to have experienced it ourselves feeling a little wistful and sad at its passing.


 This is a delightful movie.








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