Radio Flyer (1992)
Average Rating: 4.7/10
Reviews Counted: 29
Fresh: 12 | Rotten: 17
No consensus yet.
Average Rating: 4.2/10
Critic Reviews: 9
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 7
No consensus yet.
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Average Rating: 3.4/5
User Ratings: 15,238
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Two brothers are the victims of their widowed mother's violent drunkard husband who spares no rod with the youngest brother. Reverting to a world of make-believe, they imagine that their Radio Flyer wagon can fly and that in it they can escape their tormenting stepfather. This film deals in an almost make-believe manner with the serious issue of child abuse. ~ Rovi
Feb 21, 1992 Wide
Oct 12, 2004
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
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Cast
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Elijah Wood
Mike -
Joseph Mazzello
Bobby -
Lorraine Bracco
Mary -
John Heard
Daugherty -
Adam Baldwin
The King -
Ben Johnson
Geronimo Bill -
Tom Hanks
Older Mike -
Sean Baca
Young Fisher -
Robert Munic
Older Fisher -
Daniel Bieber
2nd Boy -
William J. Bonnel
Uncle -
Lennard Camarillo
4th Fisher Friend -
Victor di Mattia
Little Raymond -
T.J. Evans
Big Raymond -
Lois Foraker
Aunt -
James W. Gavin
Pilot -
Adam Hendershott
1st Boy -
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Joan Hyman
2nd Ticket Taker -
Stephen Kahan
Coffee Shop Manager -
Henry LaPlante
Priest -
Susan Gale Linn
Waitress at Coffee Shop -
Coleby Lombardo
1st Fisher Friend -
Michael Maiello
Gas Station Patron -
John Mazzello
School Boy -
Thomas Ian Nicholas
Ferdie -
Scott Lloyd Nimerfro
Golfer -
Isaac Ocampo
Jorge Hernandez -
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Elden Ryan Ratliff
3rd Fisher Friend -
Reye Reed
Restaurant Patron -
Kaylan Romero
Jesus Hernandez -
Hattie Schwartzberg
1st Ticket Taker -
Dawan Scott
Bigfoot -
Mike Simmrin
2nd Fisher Friend -
Paul Tuerpé
Market Cashier -
Hannah Wood
School Girl -
Steven Anthony Jones
Postman -
James Oliver
Gas Station Attendant -
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Abraham J. Verduzco
Carlos Hernandez
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All Critics (29) | Top Critics (9) | Fresh (12) | Rotten (19) | DVD (5)
A film one would like to like more.
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.
Top CriticRichard 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.
Despite the flaws, Evans's thoughtful script and the unclichTd performances of Wood and Mazzello exert a powerful grip. The film stays with you.
It all makes for a soaring -- and tearful -- ending.
Radio Flyer pushes so many buttons that I wanted to start pushing back.
One of the most touching films ever made. A must-see
This perverse script is flying without a pilot.
The resulting film is like a travesty of a Spielberg paean to childhood innocence -- an uplifting fantasy about child abuse and suicide.
A bittersweet and underrated drama.
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