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Dunster Dining Hall Assistant Manager Nora Dahlsaid that neither Theriault nor UHS has contactedthe house about the incident as of yesterday...
...high school, Hubert H. Humphrey). Mark gives advice for the lost teenagers who "come out" on the air. These include, as you may have guessed, the repressed, studious suicidal Malcolm; the perfect, beautiful and smart Page; and most of all, the sexually explicit "Eat-me, Beat-me Lady," Nora, played enticingly by Samantha Mathis...
...plot, although original in its premise of the underground radio show as an outlet for teenage angst, is not supported by the rest of the movie. The writing, by the movie's director, Allan Moyle, is cliched at best. As the movie unfolds, the teenage heroes fight the system; Nora and Mark hit it off and take on the school administration. What was thought to be a pastoral place of learning and enrichment in the hills (which are actually outside of Los Angeles, as proven by the shot of the LA Aqueduct) turns out to be full of troubled kids...
Mark's parents, played by Mimi Kennedy and Scott Paulin, try to get through to their "troubled" son with the overbearing "I remember when I was your age" speeches. Paulin has such lines as, "what a lech he is," meaning Mark after he is found with Nora. Kennedy's character responds, "well he must have learned it from his father" (immediate parental embrace and kissing follow). Such an inane portrayal of adults fits with the 14-year-old audience the writer was aiming...
TECHNOLOGY: Ken Baierlein (Manager); Nora Jupiter, Kevin Kelly, George Mendel, Peter K. Niceberg, Michael M. Sheehan, Lamarr Tsufura