Details

Release year: 1987

Storyline

A nostalgic look at radio's golden age focusing on one ordinary family and the various performers in the medium.

Top credits

Directors

Woody Allen

Writers

Woody Allen

Cast

Mia Farrow — Sally White
Dianne Wiest — Bea
Mike Starr — Burglar
Paul Herman — Burglar

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Awards

0 wins & 2 nominations

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Did you know

• The story of Kirby Kyle, the ill-fated baseball player, is a parody of former Chicago White Sox pitcher Monty Stratton, whose promising career was derailed after he lost part of his leg due to a hunting accident. Stratton attempted a comeback and then retired. His life was made into a movie: The Stratton Story (1949).

• Of the music in this film, Woody Allen has said in an interview with Stig Björkman: "It originated from an idea that I wanted to pick out a group of songs that were meaningful to me, and each one of those songs suggested a memory. Then this idea started to evolve: how important radio was to me when I was growing up, and how important and glamorous it seemed to everyone".

• The scene where Joe sees a German U-Boat at the beach has some basis in fact. Some U-Boats were sent to America on secret missions and had to enter New York harbor through the Rockaway inlets to get into Lower New York bay.