Radio Flyer (1992)
42 %
Reviews Counted: 26 Fresh: 11 Rotten:15 Average Rating: 4.6/10
Runtime: 1 hr 54 mins
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 and attempt to build a working airplane from their ordinary red wagon. In the process, they... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Lorraine Bracco, John Heard, Ben Johnson, Elijah Wood, Joseph Mazzello
Director: Richard Donner
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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
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
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
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Despite the flaws, Evans's thoughtful script and the unclichTd performances of Wood and Mazzello exert a powerful grip. The film stays with you.
05/12/01
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