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Radio Flyer (1992) More at IMDbPro »

• Originally to be directed by writer David M. Evans, but he was replaced by Richard Donner due to his inexperience.
  
  
• A poster for X-15 (1961) (also directed by Richard Donner) is visible outside the movie theatre.
  
  
• The train station in Novato, California where the boys walk the tracks was not shown in any detail because it was damaged by fire in the early 1980s. The restoration did not begin until 1995.
  
  
• The blue houses featured in the film are former Hamilton Air Force Base housing, and later sold to the Coast Guard for its housing. Residents of the housing referred to it as "Smurf Village."
  
  
• The sacking of original director David M. Evans, replacing him with Richard Donner, and later re-shoots following test screenings meant that this modest little film's budget jumped from $15 million to $30 million.
  
  
• The original script called for more fantasy sequences involving a worm man and zombies. These ideas were scrapped when Richard Donner replaced David M. Evans as the director.
  
  
• When Mike is reading the postcard from Bobby (at 105:19), you see that their last name is Wright - as in the "Wright Brothers". Also, the envelope from Magic Spell, Inc., (at 54:05) is addressed to "Mike and Bobby Wright".
  
  
• John Mazzello, the younger brother of Joseph Mazzello, appears as a school boy extra and Hannah Wood, the younger sister of Elijah Wood, appears as a school girl extra.
  
  
• The Three Stooges short that is on television during the kitchen scene is called Spook Louder (1943).
  
  

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