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Christian Slater has been involved in some of the more thought-provoking teen movies to venture out of Hollywood most notably the deliciously black Heathers and he hardly puts a foot wrong here. He plays a quiet high-school student who metamorphoses into an anarchic radio shock jock, who enrages the authorities but becomes a cult hero to his fellow students. Director Allan Moyle shows an unusually sensitive feel for adolescent angst, Samantha Mathis who went on to co-star with Slater in Broken Arrow is impressive in an early role and the music is a cut above the FM pap that normally inhabits American teen movies.

By night, shy student Mark Hunter (Slater), resentful because his family has moved from New York to an Arizona... read more on Time Out