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Rad (1986)
The film's story focuses on Cru Jones, a small-town hero, who has the intensity and desire to win a BMX race called Helltrack where Cru is up against the big-monied sponsor's champion Bart Taylor.
27 March 1958, Chicago, Illinois, USA
4 November 1949, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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25 April 1946, Lake Success, Long Island, New York, USA
2 April 1925, Los Angeles, California, USA
17 November 1943, Altoona, Pennsylvania, USA
August 21, 2012
Any film calling itself Rad had best be taken with a grain of salt, regardless of its subject matter. As it happens, the subject matter of Rad constitutes probably the dorkiest storyline we've seen this year.
June 25, 2012
Rad fits so snugly into Needham's oeuvre that it's unclear whether the movie is an excuse for the 8 minute BMX montage that opens Rad or he's just lazy about setting up the slobs vs. snobs beats in his 30 year-old-teenagers in high school magnum opus.
May 21, 2003
The bicycle acrobatics behind the credits at the opening of Rad are so spectacular that you wonder what the movie can do to improve on them. The short answer is, nothing.
August 21, 2012
Conner's screen debut is inauspicious -- to put it kindly -- in the quality of both his acting and the material chosen, and someone else is obviously doing his riding.
August 21, 2012
The whole thing reminds you more of an overanxious teacher or coach, taking a few slang words and repeating them endlessly in a doomed attempt to "relate."
