I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

What makes it different from others?

everything you have heard about this movie is true.

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

😇. This is a movie that come from the heart. It's what life is really suppose to be about which is a family and community that comes together to help each other out. These are the best types of movies. It's NOT about hateful crap.. Some people would say things like"no one would go out of there way to help someone out that much" like the couch did for radio. But It is not about black and white it is about heaven and hell. It is not a coincidence that the football couch felt in his heart he needed help radio. The football couch finds out that radio had no father for a long time and his mother eventually passes. God works in mysterious ways and radio probably really did need the football couchs help through life. Look how happy the real radio and couch both look as friends at the end of The movie . Helping others is key to life. Never hesitate to help someone that you really feel like you need to help. For instance I never had no mom or dad or family and was on the streets since I was 10 and I was sleeping at parks, or at schools at night times, and also sometimes my friends house whos mom also helped me with grocerys.. But it was never a permant spot to livestock my friends because of his step dad. But when I turned 18 I met a GOOD Christian guy who would walk his dog by the park and I would talk to him and he eventually decided to help me by gaining my trust. After he helped me I got a job, a apartment, a nice car, and eventually graduated collage. If he didn't help me I probably would of stayed homeless. That's why this movie hits me really deep. It's been a long time since I saw this movie and I really like it. Sometimes its not what a man does for himself but what he does for someone else. The last time I can remember a movie hitting me real deep was when I saw shawshank redemption even though I know there not related. This movie was directed good and makes you feel good after you watch it. This is a movie that touches the soul.

Get ready Cuba Gooding Jr. gives a astounding performance in this enjoyable true story . He plays a mentally challenged young man in a small town in South Carloina mainly minding his own business until one day some teenagers from a high school football team play a cruel prank on Radio and coach Jones (Ed Harris) finds Radio all tied up and takes matters in to his own hands.He takes Radio in, and makes him part of the community.See the turmoil coach deals with helping Radio become part of the spirit in the school and community around him, you will be wrapped up in this courageous story that will touch you and make you feel good and will make you want to help someone yourself . So get read for some great acting by Cuba and Harris as you will see in the ending Cuba must of studied the part to a tee , So get some friends together and Enjoy!!!!

The highlights of this film are the two absolutely superb performances by Cuba Gooding, Jr. and Ed Harris. Gooding was the title character - James Robert Kennedy, a mentally disabled young man known simply as "Radio" because of his love for radios. Harris played Harold Jones - a local high school teacher who was also coach of the Hanna High School football team and the school's athletic director. The movie is the portrayal of how their relationship develops, with Jones taking the young man under his wing, so to speak, and making him part of both the team and the school community, fighting the efforts of many of the townsfolk and school board officials to have him removed.It's certainly a heartwarming story, although it's not exactly what I'd call a tearjerker, although there are moments when tears might flow (particularly the death of Radio's mother.) There are question raised throughout the movie that are often hard to deal with. One admires Jones' devotion to Radio, but one wonders why he seems unable to show the same devotion to his own daughter. It's great to see Radio becoming gradually accepted as part of the team and school, but the movie doesn't shy away from the question of whether he isn't being treated more as a mascot than anything else - certainly a question that ran through my head on a number of occasions as we watch Radio lead the team on the the field and join the cheerleading squad from time to time. Jones' own personal motivation is finally explained as he relates a childhood experience to his daughter that illustrates why he feels so strongly for Radio. In the end, Radio's place within the life of the school is made more "official" and Kennedy is apparently still roaming the halls and the sidelines of Hanna High as an official 11th Grade student for as long as he wants to be one - this being based on a true story."Based on a true story" always makes me wonder. Kennedy is real, and he's really at Hanna High and he and Jones are really friends, so there's obviously a strong basis in fact for this movie. I wondered, though, about what seemed to be the surprisingly easy acceptance of Radio among the townspeople. Although the whole community was concerned about the on-field performance of the football team, aside from one parent and one school board official, people seemed largely unconcerned about or uninterested in Radio himself - which struck me as a surprisingly bland reaction for a small southern town in the late 1960's to have for a mentally disabled young black man. But clearly it worked long term. I did appreciate that this was about much more than the football team. The football team was the backdrop for what happened, but no more than that. This was't an "underdog overcomes" sports story. The Hanna High team didn't have a great season in this movie; neither Radio nor Coach Jones inspired them to win anything of significance. The football team just became in some ways a microcosm of the community, as they grew more and more accepting of Radio, to the point at which Radio's presence was simply a given.This is a very well done film, one of the better "based on a true story" films I've come across. (8/10)

Radio was a movie I had heard mixed things about, but because I'm such a huge fan of Cuba Gooding, I of course checked it out. I adore Ed Harris so watching him and Cuba act alongside each other was a treat to watch. Radio I suppose is a predictable piece of sentimentality, but the way it's done is wonderful. I have worked with people who are mentally challenged and ever since then, I have grown to understand and deal with them with patience, so while I was watching the story unfold, I couldn't help but feel emotion for Radio. I really don't understand how Cuba Gooding earned a razzy for his performance here, I felt it was Oscar worthy!. I really feel Radio is a nice feel-good story of a kid that's mentally challenged being accepted by the society that he is living in, and becoming a legend in his own right. Maybe people won't love it as much as I did, but if you've worked with these kinds of kids perhaps you'd understand why I got into this as much as I did.Performances. Cuba Gooding gives yet again a fantastic performance. This should have revived his career, but instead he's doing many crappy DTV movies now, which is very sad with a man of his caliber of talent. He feels mentally challenged, looks mentally challenged, it really was a phenomenal performance. Ed Harris is just as good. His character isn't as hard to play, but he has a lot of heart and his character was just as important.Bottom line. Radio is a great piece of sentimentality, and it's bound to jerk a few tears or two, see it.9/10