One of the most touching films ever made. A must-see
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10/26/08
Radio Flyer (1992)
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Reviews Counted:27
Fresh:12
Rotten:15
Average Rating:4.7/10
Runtime: 1 hr 54 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Two young brothers' lives are turned upside down when their new alcoholic stepfather enters their world and begins to beat young Bobby. Devoted to their mom, they come up with their own solution... [More]
Starring: Lorraine Bracco, John Heard, Ben Johnson, Elijah Wood
Director: Richard Donner
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Reviews for Radio Flyer
A film one would like to like more.
04/15/08
Top CriticThis perverse script is flying without a pilot.
04/15/08
The resulting film is like a travesty of a Spielberg paean to childhood innocence -- an uplifting fantasy about child abuse and suicide.
04/15/08
No review available.
05/24/07
It's not a total loss, but the voice-over is infuriatingly overdone, as if the film-makers didn't trust the visuals, the kids are resistible and the tone's discomfortingly cute.
02/09/06
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07/07/05
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01/05/05
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12/18/04
A bittersweet and underrated drama.
04/20/04
No review available.
04/03/04
No review available.
03/12/04
Richard Donner's Radio Flyer is one of those infrequent and embarrassing efforts of a perfectly adequate Hollywood director to make the kind of offbeat movie for which he has no aptitude at all.
05/20/03
Top CriticNo review available.
03/04/03
No review available.
02/14/03
No review available.
11/27/02
Equal parts sappy and sincere.
10/22/02
No review available.
07/31/02
Embarrassing, sentimental crap.
07/26/02
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