Pass the syrup

Rating: 2/10 (11 February 2005)

Radio(1993)I will admit that I am a soft touch for a feel good, tear jerker type of movie and thats what I was hoping for when I went to see 'Radio'. Instead I left the theater shaking my head and wondering why I even wasted my time on this sappy,letdown of a film. Based on a true story, 'Radio'is about a mentally challenged young man( played by Oscar winner Cuba Gooding Jr)who is befriended by a high school coach and made the manager/mascot of the football team.In time he becomes an inspiration to everyone around him, including the Coach, played be the normally solid Ed Harris, who spends the entire movie making soulful goo-goo eyes at Radio to the point of being ridiculous. To make matters worse, Debra Winger makes her return to the big screen here as the coaches wife and any more performances like this will make her return short- lived. Gooding hams it up way too much and makes me wonder how he ever won an Oscar(for Jerry Maguire)in the first place. Sorry, but 'Radio'is a loser.