Review of Radio Flyer (1992) by Rocknblues 8 — 09 Jun 2011

Radio Flyer is about 2 young brothers and their mom moving to get a new start on life. Everything is fine until the mom meets a man (Adam Baldwin) and he turns out to not be a very good stepfather. As time goes on, we see that the stepfather is a bad drinker, and he begins to beat the youngest brother Bobby for any and every little thing.

To escape the beatings, the two brothers try and build a plane from a Radio Flyer red wagon.

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I really enjoyed this film as a kid... But I most say now that it's not a good movie. It never really address anything... It sort of turns into a disney movie at the end. No really message is sent at all.

I understand the two boys are the main focus, but nobody else really gets screen time here. So few of the characters are developed. So what we have here is a movie that starts to go into something real, but it chickens out and turns disney like with a lame ending.