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| name = Radio Days
| image = RadioDaysPoster.jpg
| caption = Theatrical release poster by Brian Hamill<ref>{{cite web | url=https://filmartgallery.com/products/radio-days-8566 | title=Radio Days Movie Poster 1987 }}</ref>
| director = [[Woody Allen]]
| producer = [[Robert Greenhut]]▼
| writer = Woody Allen
▲| producer = [[Robert Greenhut]]
| starring = [[Radio Days#Cast|See cast]]
| music = [[Dick Hyman]]▼
| cinematography = [[Carlo Di Palma]]
| editing = [[Susan E. Morse]]
▲| music = [[Dick Hyman]]
| distributor = [[Orion Pictures]]
| released = {{Film date|1987|01|30}}
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| gross = $14.8 million
}}
'''''Radio Days''''' is a 1987 American [[
==Plot==
During the late 1930s and early 1940s young Joe lived
Joe's own favourite radio show was ''The Masked Avenger''. It made him dream of buying a [[secret decoder ring]]. In Joe's fantasy the Masked Avenger looked like a hero, but in reality the voice actor was short and bald. Other radio memories are stories about sporting heroes, news bulletins about [[World War II]], a report of
With his friends from school Joe was searching for German aircraft, but instead they saw a woman undressing in her bedroom. She later turned out to be their substitute teacher. Alone on the coast Joe saw a German [[U-boat]], but he decided not to tell anyone because they wouldn't believe him.
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* [[Michael Tucker (actor)|Michael Tucker]] as Father
* [[David Warrilow]] as Roger Daley
* [[Richard Portnow]] as Sy
* [[William H. Macy]] as Radio Voice
* [[Kenneth Welsh]] as Radio Voice
* [[Dianne Wiest]] as Aunt Bea
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==Music==
The film's [[soundtrack]], which features songs from the 1930s and 40s, plays an integral part in the plot. It was released in 1987 by RCA Victor on [[LP record]] through their Novus soundtrack imprint, and also on [[Compact Cassette|cassette]] and [[compact disc]]
===Track listing===
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| extra4 = [[Artie Shaw]]
| length4 = 3:01
| title5 = [[The Donkey Serenade]]
| extra5 = [[Allan Jones (actor)|Allan Jones]]
| length5 = 3:21
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===Critical response===
''Radio Days'' holds a
[[David Denby]] wrote for ''[[New York (magazine)|New York]]'' that: "[...] The real glue, however, is the lullingly beautiful popular music of the period — [[Cole Porter]], [[Al Dubin|Dubin]] and [[Harry Warren|Warren]], big-band jazz, crooners, torch singers, [[Carmen Miranda]]. The music, perfectly matched to images of old wood and brick buildings and old glamour spots, produces a mood of distanced, bittersweet nostalgia. ''Radio Days'' becomes a gently satiric commemorations of forgotten lives."<ref>{{cite web |last=Denby |first=David |author-link=David Denby |title=Woody Allen's nostalgic Radio Days is exquisitely crafted, but the picture is suffused with mediocrity |work=[[New York (magazine)|New York]] |date=February 9, 1987 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J-UCAAAAMBAJ&q=radio+days+carmen+miranda&pg=PA95 |access-date=September 3, 2014 |archive-date=November 4, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211104222024/https://books.google.com/books?id=J-UCAAAAMBAJ&q=radio+days+carmen+miranda&pg=PA95 |url-status=live }}</ref>
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==See also==
* [[List of films set around New Year]]
==References==
{{reflist}}
==External links==
* {{IMDb title
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* {{Mojo title
* {{AFI film}}
* {{
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[[Category:1987 films]]
[[Category:1987 comedy-drama films]]
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[[Category:1980s coming-of-age comedy-drama films]]
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[[Category:American independent films]]
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[[Category:Films about families]]
[[Category:Films about radio]]▼
[[Category:Films about radio people]]
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[[Category:Films directed by Woody Allen]]
[[Category:Films produced by Robert Greenhut]]
[[Category:Films set in 1938]]
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