Radioland Murders

1994

Action / Comedy / Crime / Drama / Musical / Mystery / Romance

10
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 60% · 18 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 60% · 5K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.2/10 10 4132 4.1K

radio station radio writer director

Plot summary

A series of mysterious crimes threatens the existence of a new radio network.

Director

Mel Smith Photo
Mel Smith

Top cast

Robert C. Treveiler Photo
Robert C. Treveiler as Cop #13
Anne De Salvo Photo
Anne De Salvo as Female Writer
Rosemary Clooney Photo
Rosemary Clooney as Anna
Robert Walden Photo
Robert Walden as Tommy
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948.45 MB
1280*544
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 48 min
Seeds 2
1.68 GB
1920*816
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 48 min
Seeds 4

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by badass-6 5 / 10

Try "My Favorite Year" instead.

Going in, Radioland Murders has some key elements that could of made for an entertaining story: all-star cast in a screwball comedy and an nostalgic storyline that could put to use a colorful set.But it all failed. The joke delivery was flat and some of the casting choices were peculiar. Watching Mary Stuart Masterson struggle through the lead female role made me long for Jennifer Jason Leigh's brilliant, high-spirited, cigarette-chomping, Hepburn-inspired career girl in the Coens' Hudsucker Proxy.Also Brian Benben, most notable from HBO's "Dream On" series, doesn't give viewers any of maligned everyman he popularized in the older series.This movie attempts many times to emulate that 40s-era world, with its Art Deco imagery, but the characters come off more cartoonish than swashbuckling. There are far better period comedies, I suggest "My Favorite Year" starring Peter O'Toole; "Radio Days" by Woody Allen and the aforementioned Hudsucker just to name a few. Those films succeed where Radioland fails, pulling viewers into these bygone eras to feel an inkling of what those times felt and sounded like.
Reviewed by btamerica 7 / 10

Surprised that I liked it a lot.

When this came out, the reviews were generally bad. But the idea intrigued me. So I tracked down the video and found that I liked it a lot. It's about a radio station where they are trying to change from a local station to a national network, with a romantic subplot, and the body count starts piling up too. It's kinda like "The Old Dark House" or "The Cat And The Canary", mystery comedies with a lot of things happening to a lot of characters in one night. Admittedly, it's uneven, and not all of the comedy works. It's frantic and zany, and the characters come and go and then come back again. Just when you've forgotten about one subplot, it pops back. Either that, or somebody new has turned up dead. So, if you are a little adventurous, I'd recommend that you give it a try.
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