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Summary Radio is a film based on the life of James Robert “Radio” Kennedy and a football coach, Harold Jones. The film, released in 2003, was based in the 1960s in South Carolina. Radio is a man with an unspecified intellectual disability who shows and interest in the high school football team. The coach befriends Radio who begins to help out the football and the basketball team. The plot of the movie follows the development of the coach and Radio’s friendship and the town’s journey to eventually accept Radio.
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My first reflection after watching Radio was that the movie focused more on the Coach and his character development than on Radio. Although Radio was a ‘main character’, his character was undeveloped and simple
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