We Are All God's Children!

Rating: 10/10 (20 February 2004)

I teach special education at the high school level. I showed this movie to the kids today after viewing it myself last night. All I can say to the producers, director and financial backers of this film is-Bravo!
There are two outstanding performances by Ed Harris as the compassionate high school football coach and Cuba Gooding Jr, the retarded black man whom Harris takes under his wing. Academy awards, anyone?
This movie could have sunk into hopeless pathos, but it never does. It never loses its common sense. We are taken on an emotional journey. The football team, Ed Harris and his family, the high school, and the whole town become captured by the warmth, the love, and the decency of Radio. He trundles into their lives with his shopping cart full of junk and old radios, not talking, merely existing.
By the end of the movie, Radio radiates happiness because he has found meaning in his life and the love of the whole town.
I don't know how this works, but it does.
Sometimes, miracles really do happen!