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This article is about a film, for other uses see Radio (disambiguation)
Radio (disambiguation)

Radio is a medium of wireless communication.It can also refer to:...
.

Radio, released October 2003, is a film
Film

Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the film industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects....
 directed by Mike Tollin
Mike Tollin

Mike Tollin is a movie director and producer. His career highlights included Radio , Coach Carter, and Varsity Blues . He frequently collaborates with Brian Robbins in which they own a production company together called Tollin/Robbins Productions....
 that is based on the true story of T.L. Hanna High School football coach Harold Jones (Ed Harris
Ed Harris

'Edward Allen "Ed" Harris' is an United States actor, film writer and film director, known for his performances in Appaloosa , Radio , The Rock , The Right Stuff , Enemy at the Gates, The Abyss, Glengarry Glen Ross , Apollo 13 , Pollock , A Beautiful Mind, National Treasure: Book of Secrets, and Th...
) and a mentally-challenged young man James Robert "Radio" Kennedy (Cuba Gooding, Jr.
Cuba Gooding, Jr.

Cuba Gooding Jr. is an United States actor. He is best known for his Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor-winning portrayal as Rod Tidwell in Cameron Crowe's Jerry Maguire and his critically acclaimed performance in John Singleton's Boyz in the Hood ....
). Also starring Debra Winger
Debra Winger

Debra Winger is an Academy Award-nominated United States actress....
 and Alfre Woodard
Alfre Woodard

Alfre Ette Woodard is an American actor. She has been nominated for an Academy Awards and has won four Emmy Awards, three SAG Awards and one Golden Globe Award....
, it was inspired by the 1996 Sports Illustrated
Sports Illustrated

Sports Illustrated is an United States sports magazine owned by Mass media conglomerate Time Warner. It has over 3 million subscribers and is read by 23 million adults each week, including over 18 million men, 19% of the adult males in the United States....
 article by Gary Smith
Gary Smith (sportswriter)

Gary Smith is an acclaimed American sportswriter. He is best known for his lengthy human interest story in Sports Illustrated, where he has worked since the early 1980s....
.

James Robert Kennedy (born October 14, 1947 in Anderson, South Carolina
Anderson, South Carolina

Anderson is a city in and the county seat of Anderson County, South Carolina, South Carolina, United States. The population was 25,514 at the United States Census, 2000, and the city was the center of an urbanized area of 70,530....
, USA), grew up most of his life carrying the fascination of radios
Receiver (radio)

This article is about a radio receiver, for other uses see Radio .A radio receiver is an electronics circuit that receives its input from an antenna , uses electronic filters to separate a wanted radio signal from all other signals picked up by this antenna, electronic amplifier it to a level suitable for further processing, and finally...
.






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This article is about a film, for other uses see Radio (disambiguation)
Radio (disambiguation)

Radio is a medium of wireless communication.It can also refer to:...
.

Radio, released October 2003, is a film
Film

Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the film industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects....
 directed by Mike Tollin
Mike Tollin

Mike Tollin is a movie director and producer. His career highlights included Radio , Coach Carter, and Varsity Blues . He frequently collaborates with Brian Robbins in which they own a production company together called Tollin/Robbins Productions....
 that is based on the true story of T.L. Hanna High School football coach Harold Jones (Ed Harris
Ed Harris

'Edward Allen "Ed" Harris' is an United States actor, film writer and film director, known for his performances in Appaloosa , Radio , The Rock , The Right Stuff , Enemy at the Gates, The Abyss, Glengarry Glen Ross , Apollo 13 , Pollock , A Beautiful Mind, National Treasure: Book of Secrets, and Th...
) and a mentally-challenged young man James Robert "Radio" Kennedy (Cuba Gooding, Jr.
Cuba Gooding, Jr.

Cuba Gooding Jr. is an United States actor. He is best known for his Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor-winning portrayal as Rod Tidwell in Cameron Crowe's Jerry Maguire and his critically acclaimed performance in John Singleton's Boyz in the Hood ....
). Also starring Debra Winger
Debra Winger

Debra Winger is an Academy Award-nominated United States actress....
 and Alfre Woodard
Alfre Woodard

Alfre Ette Woodard is an American actor. She has been nominated for an Academy Awards and has won four Emmy Awards, three SAG Awards and one Golden Globe Award....
, it was inspired by the 1996 Sports Illustrated
Sports Illustrated

Sports Illustrated is an United States sports magazine owned by Mass media conglomerate Time Warner. It has over 3 million subscribers and is read by 23 million adults each week, including over 18 million men, 19% of the adult males in the United States....
 article by Gary Smith
Gary Smith (sportswriter)

Gary Smith is an acclaimed American sportswriter. He is best known for his lengthy human interest story in Sports Illustrated, where he has worked since the early 1980s....
.

James Robert Kennedy (born October 14, 1947 in Anderson, South Carolina
Anderson, South Carolina

Anderson is a city in and the county seat of Anderson County, South Carolina, South Carolina, United States. The population was 25,514 at the United States Census, 2000, and the city was the center of an urbanized area of 70,530....
, USA), grew up most of his life carrying the fascination of radios
Receiver (radio)

This article is about a radio receiver, for other uses see Radio .A radio receiver is an electronics circuit that receives its input from an antenna , uses electronic filters to separate a wanted radio signal from all other signals picked up by this antenna, electronic amplifier it to a level suitable for further processing, and finally...
. His nickname, Radio, was given to him by the townspeople because of the radio he carried around with him everywhere he went. He still attends T. L. Hanna High School and coaches the football team. He is known to ask students before football games, "We gonna get that quarterback?"

Cast and characters

  • Cuba Gooding, Jr.
    Cuba Gooding, Jr.

    Cuba Gooding Jr. is an United States actor. He is best known for his Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor-winning portrayal as Rod Tidwell in Cameron Crowe's Jerry Maguire and his critically acclaimed performance in John Singleton's Boyz in the Hood ....
     - James "Radio" Robert Kennedy
  • Ed Harris
    Ed Harris

    'Edward Allen "Ed" Harris' is an United States actor, film writer and film director, known for his performances in Appaloosa , Radio , The Rock , The Right Stuff , Enemy at the Gates, The Abyss, Glengarry Glen Ross , Apollo 13 , Pollock , A Beautiful Mind, National Treasure: Book of Secrets, and Th...
     - Coach Jones
  • S. Epatha Merkerson
    S. Epatha Merkerson

    S. Epatha Merkerson is an United States Golden Globe-, Screen Actors Guild-, NAACP Image Award- and Emmy Award-winning actress. She has also received two Tony Award nominations....
     - Mama Kennedy
  • Alfre Woodard
    Alfre Woodard

    Alfre Ette Woodard is an American actor. She has been nominated for an Academy Awards and has won four Emmy Awards, three SAG Awards and one Golden Globe Award....
     - Principal Daniels
  • Debra Winger
    Debra Winger

    Debra Winger is an Academy Award-nominated United States actress....
     - Linda
  • Riley Smith
    Riley Smith

    Riley Bryant Smith is an American actor and singer for the band The Life of Riley.Smith was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa to parents who owned a horse ranch....
     - Johnny
  • Chris Mulkey
    Chris Mulkey

    Chris Mulkey is an American actor who most recently appeared in Cloverfield and the NBC TV movie Knight Rider . He has also played a coach in four episodes of Friday Night Lights , and appeared in numerous TV shows and movies as far back the mid 1970s, such as Baretta and early '90s cult classic Twin Peaks....
     - Frank
  • Patrick Breen
    Patrick Breen

    Patrick Breen was born October 26, 1960 in Brooklyn, New York USA. He has acted primarily on TV but has appears in numerous films....
     - Tucker


Reception

Radio made $52,277,485 dollars in the box office total. On Rotten Tomatoes
Rotten Tomatoes

Rotten Tomatoes is a website devoted to reviews, information, and news of films. The name derives from the historical clich? of throwing tomatoes and other produce at stage performers if a performance was particularly bad....
 it received a 34% on with mostly negative reviews and 37% positive reviews.

External links

  • by Gary Smith
    Gary Smith (sportswriter)

    Gary Smith is an acclaimed American sportswriter. He is best known for his lengthy human interest story in Sports Illustrated, where he has worked since the early 1980s....
     - the magazine article that inspired Mike Tollin
    Mike Tollin

    Mike Tollin is a movie director and producer. His career highlights included Radio , Coach Carter, and Varsity Blues . He frequently collaborates with Brian Robbins in which they own a production company together called Tollin/Robbins Productions....
     to make the film.