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Christian Slater

Samantha Mathis

Annie Ross

Scott Paulin

Mimi Kennedy

Andy Romano

Keith Stuart Thayer

Cheryl Pollak

Jeff Chamberlain

Lala Sloatman

Holly Sampson

Seth Green

Robert Schenkkan

Ellen Greene

Anthony Lucero

Billy Morrissette

Ahmet Zappa

Matt McGrath

James Hampton

Nolan Hemmings

Virginya Keehne

Lin Shaye

Annie Rusoff

Jonathan Mazer

Alexander Enberg

Robert Gavin

Dan Eisenstein

Mark Ballou

Daryl Sebert

Gregg Daniel

Marc Siegler

Ariana Mohit

Jill Jurres

Justin Hessling

Jay Lambert

Allan Kolman

Clayton Landey

David McKnight

Tony Auer

Paulette Ballock

Robert Harvey

Chris Jacobs

Steve Archer

Larry Clardy

John K. Shull

Michele Bernath

Steph DuVall

Sherri Shaffner

Roger Scott

Gary Dubin

Nigel Gibbs

David C. Glasser

John Pinero

Juliet Landau

Ed Trotta

Kenny McMurphy

Cliff Martinez

Walt Lloyd

Janice Hampton

Larry Bock

Nicolas Stiliadis

Rupert Harvey

Sara Risher

Allan Moyle

Syd Cappe

Sandy Stern

Troy Gilbert

Donna Evans

Michael Cassidy

John Robotham

Ben Scott

Newton Thomas Sigel

Judith Holstra

Robb Wilson King

John H. Burrows

Jeanne Van Cott

Josh McLaglen

Daniel R. Suhart

Deborah Aquila

Melanie Holstra

Janet Grillo

Krishna Rao

Thomas Yatsko

Giles Dunning

Carolyn Chen

Francis Lawrence

Pablo Ferro

Newton TerMeer

John Maninger

Tom Harjo

Robin Semple

Russell Fager

Tom Caton

Lisa De Alva

John A. Keim

Michael Abbott

Jessica Fasman

Michelle Bühler

Barbara Olvera

Denise Dellavalle

Joni Meers

Kathy Curtis-Cahill

Bruce Bolander

Tina Peterson

Robert A. Smith

Wendy Greene Bricmont

Ric Keeley

Kurt Hathaway

Christopher Sheldon

Dane A. Davis

Stewart Nelsen

Kini Kay

Todd Toon

Joel Berkovitz

Tom Hammond

Mark Larry

Kimberly Lowe Voigt

Stuart Copely

G.W. Brown

Tracy Toon

Melinda Garey

Rebecca Nicolaou

Gregg Barbanell

Nancy Parker

Wayne Heitman

Bob Beemer

Joel Fein

Jeanette Browning

Jon Hussein

Stephen Wood

Hank Calia

Mark A. Cuttin

B.J. Davis

Gary Dionne

Ousaun Elam

Diamond Farnsworth

Larry Holt

Dennis Madalone

Carol Neilson Smrz

Ed Shinstine

Jerry Spicer

Tony Tamburro

Bob Terhune

Rhonda Terhune

George P. Wilbur

Henry Wills

Bob McIntosh

Bob Yerkes

Thomas L. Bellissimo

Charles Belardinelli

Filipe Manuel Neto

**A duel of generations, a school, angry teenagers and lots of rock.**

This is a film for young adults that takes advantage of traditional teenage rebellion and the talent of Christian Slater, a good script and a good soundtrack. It's not masterful, but it's ideal for a Saturday afternoon and has aged very well: thirty years after it was made and marketed, it's still young and fresh.

The story focuses on a clandestine radio station created by an angry and angry teenager who was forced to move house and is in a place where he doesn't know anyone and doesn't even feel comfortable. The radio is an outlet, it is a means of expressing inner anger, and it is nothing truly serious, but it becomes increasingly relevant as it acquires a very loyal local audience, who listen to him as if he were a guru without even knowing it. his identity, and allows himself to be carried away by his words in a wave of riots and protests that are directed, in particular, against the management of the local high school.

The story is quite good, it is well written, and the duel between the two characters (the young teenager assumed to be the radio presenter and the plenipotentiary director of the school) mirrors not only the oldest conflict of generations but also the permanent conflict between powerful and weak in society. None of this is particularly new, but the way it is served and presented was creative and wonderfully entertaining. The problem here is that it's a film for teenagers, it's too light, and it lacks secondary characters that are at least as complete and impactful as the two central characters.

Christian Slater lived in his youth, the happiest days of his career, and gave us good characters in good films. With time and success, he became a star and almost a synonym of rebellion and irreverence, an apprentice of James Dean who exploded onto the screen, guaranteeing the success of his films and the influx of young people to the cinema. Time, however, would show that Slater was, in each film, playing a single character, which was the one he tried to revive in his personal life, increasingly complicated by addictions and problems with the authorities. Annie Ross, on the other hand, gives us mature, well-developed work, suitably dark and dense, never allowing Slater to feel alone in the spotlight.

On a technical level, it is in the soundtrack that we find the film's strong point. The songs include hit songs by Leonard Cohen, Pixies, Ivan Neville and Cowboy Junkies, and most of them are very easy to know for anyone who lived through the 90s and 2000s, that is, everyone or almost everyone. The rest doesn't really matter: with no mistakes to regret, it doesn't exceed the average at any particular point.

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