Mark Hunter is a inconspicuous and shy teenager. He and
his parents moved from New York to Arizona because his father has got a
new job here. Mark gets bored and starts to play with the radio station
he got from his father. At the beginning his shows are primitive and have
no U-certificate.
But the longer he makes his shows the more listener he
gets until the whole school is fond of him. Nora, a bold and lively young
woman, wants to find out who this mysterious DJ is who turns the school
upside down and who drives the director Cresswood crazy, and she makes
it.
Mark's shows becomes more and more serious, until a boy
commits suicide after he talked to Hard Happy Harry (the nickname of Mark
as DJ). The FCC (Federal Communication Commission) is interpolated. It's
responsible to find so-called pirate stations.
Hard Happy Harry wants to finish. He feels himself guilty
of the death of this boy because he didn't say: 'No, don't do it.' Nora
persuades him that the school needs him, that he is the voice which calls:
'Have a look around you!' Mark wants to make a final show after there were
conferences with the parents and after the press is informed. Mark puts
his machine on the jeep of his mother and drives through the town with
Nora so that the FCC doesn't find out his position. For the first time
Marks sees his fans. They've gathered on the place besides the school.
Now he can't go back. He drives to the middle of the place and wants the
others to say what they want to say, until one removes the cable of his
transmitter. The police drags him and Nora to the car. Before the doors
close, Mark says 'his' sentence:
"Talk
hard!"
Christian Slater as Mark
Samantha
Mathis as Nora
Some quotes of PUTV:
"...someday I awake and realized that I
would never be normal. But I said:
"Bullshit, so be it!""
"Now I feel like killing myself,
but I'm too depressed to bother."
"Did you ever get the feeling that
everything in America is completely fucked up?"
Criticism:
My absolute favourite movie with a real "high" in the
end! When I watched it the first time, I was so stired up that I couldn't
sleep for three whole hours!