cuba gooding and jr. will win the oscar for best actor in 2003. and ed harris will win for best support actor . what a beautiful and poignant film it be but be sure to bring along a box of tissue because if this film doesn not get to you and then you have ice water in your vein . it be 1976. the setting be in south carolina and the civil right act be about ten year old . we have a white high school football coach and teacher and ed harris . then there be a black retarded frighten but pleasant fellow and cuba gooding and whose great possession and include a radio and be pile into a shopping cart which be also use a his bicycle . ed harris take a keen interest in the fellow for a reason explain much later on in the film . he give cuba the nickname radio and what follow be an absoutely riveting and engrossing and poignant exploration of the human soul . the movie be nothing short of a masterpiece .