Rudy/Radio [2 Discs]Rudy/Radio [2 Discs]

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  • Aspect Ratio:
    Widescreen
  • Rating:
     PG
  • Language:
      English, Spanish, French
  • Studio:
      Sony Pictures
  • UPC:
      043396155893
  • Year of Release:
      1993
  • Item Number:
      COL015589
  • Release Date:
      06/01/2010
  • Genre:
     

    Biopic [feature] –

    Drama –

    Sports Drama

  • Format:
     

    DVD

DVD FEATURES:
  • Region: 1
  • Number of Discs: 2
  • Subtitle: Eng/Fre/Spa/Ko/Th
  • Audio: Dolby Digital Surround
  • Screen: Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 (Theatre Wide Screen)
  • Features:
    • cc
    • Rudy: Three exclusive featurettes
    • Isolated music score
    • Radio: Director's commentary
    • Deleted scenes
    • Tuning in on Radio
    • The 12-hour football games of Radio
    • Writing Radio
AWARDS
  • NAACP Image Awards
  •     Won Best Actor - 2004 (Cuba Gooding, Jr.)
  •     Won Best Supporting Actress - 2004 (Alfre Woodard)
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
REVIEWS:
  • A tale of the utmost dogged determination, Rudy has come to be considered one of the more resonant guilty pleasures in the pantheon of sports movies -- the kind that brings a tear to the eye of the gruffest of jocks. There's an almost nerdy earnestness about both the film and its main character, played with unblinking intensity by Sean Astin. A hero who wears his love of Notre Dame football proudly on his sleeve, with zero sense of irony, would be almost unthinkable in a 21st century sports movie -- it already seems quaint by 1994. But perhaps that's key to the film's charm. Rudy Ruettiger couldn't accomplish anything if he let people's perceptions of him dictate his choices in life. And since it's based on a true story, there's no cause to blame Rudy's roller coaster of travails and triumphs on screenwriting contrivances. Because the film has a reputation as kind of a B-sports classic -- in the same category as Major League -- it's probably not possible to go in without knowing it has a happy ending. Still, viewers will be pleasantly surprised if they think they know the shape of that ending -- it's much more life-sized than a writer of fiction would conjure. Hoosiers director David Anspaugh presides over the package without being flashy or syrupy, though the sentiment creeps through anyway. Angelo Pizzo is also back from Hoosiers with a sturdy script. Rudy is so much the focus of this script that the other characters tend to get short-changed, particularly Lili Taylor's Sherry. But Ned Beatty and Charles S. Dutton make the most of key supporting roles, and Astin carries the picture home. ~ Derek Armstrong, Rovi
  • Cuba Gooding Jr. is famous for the poor quality of his post-Oscar work, so it was natural to assume that his performance as a mentally handicapped football assistant would be all bug-eyed caricature. It's definitely possible to quibble with some of his facial expressions, but Gooding actually underplays more scenes in Radio than he overplays. That leaves the movie on the whole in the range of B to B+ material. Good for a hankie or two -- with the right audience -- it's mid-level inspirational stuff that's delivered competently, but with little distinction. Radio does earn some credibility by being based on a real person, James Robert Kennedy, and the fact that it doesn't just follow the typical sports movie arc of seeing the team through one memorable season. Director Mike Tollin has been around a ton of sports movies in his day, so it's to his credit that Radio is more about how a special individual -- in the least condescending sense of that word -- impacts a whole town, rather than a specific athletic program. (Radio also walks the sidelines for the boys' basketball team). The central issues are the same as they would be for any group trying to seamlessly integrate someone who's intellectually different -- how to encourage him and give him a place without allowing his suggestible judgment to endanger either himself or others. In the role of Radio's champion and surrogate father, Ed Harris is a bit too saintly to effectively personify this central tension, but he does such likeable work that he's also not worth criticizing. Radio will please a lot of skeptics simply for the fact that it mostly avoids maudlin scenes and emotional manipulation. However, it doesn't rank especially high as either an underdog sports movie or a complex consideration of the mentally disabled. ~ Derek Armstrong, Rovi

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