Nora drives the Jeep around while Mark broadcasts. The harmonizer he uses to disguise his voice breaks, and Mark, unable to fix it, decides to broadcast his final message as himself. They finally drive up to the crowd of protesting students, and Mark tells them that the world belongs to them and that they should make their own future. The police step in and arrest Mark and Nora. As the pair are taken away, Mark reminds the students to "talk hard." As the film ends, the voices of other students (and even one of the teachers) speak as intros for their own independent stations, which can be heard broadcasting across the country. Cast Christian Slater as Mark Hunter Samantha Mathis as Nora De Niro Mimi Kennedy as Marla Hunter Scott Paulin as Brian Hunter Cheryl Pollak as Paige Woodward Annie Ross as Principal Loretta Creswood Ahmet Zappa as Jaime Billy Morrissette as Mazz Mazzilli Seth Green as Joey Robert Schenkkan as David Deaver, guidance counselor Ellen Greene as Jan Emerson Andy Romano as Mr. Murdock Anthony Lucero as Malcolm Kaiser Lala Sloatman as Janie James Hampton as Arthur Watts of the FCC Production After his film Times Square, a new wave comedy, was taken away from him and re-edited, Allan Moyle retired from directing and began working on screenplays. One of them, about a teenager who runs his own pirate radio station for other teenagers, came to the attention of SC Entertainment, a Toronto-based company, and put into development. He was persuaded to direct his own screenplay. Moyle wrote it without a specific actor in mind but his development deal specified that the project would be canceled if a suitable actor could not be found. The director needed an actor who had to have "glee, to be ineffably sweet and at the same time demonic." He initially wanted to cast John Cusack, but Cusack turned down the role, as he didn't want to play another high school student following his role in Say Anything... Christian Slater met with Moyle and producer Sandy Stern and displayed all these qualities. Moyle has described the film's protagonist as an amalgam of Holden Caulfield and Lenny Bruce and the "Hard Harry" persona as a guy who "has to get credibility as an outsider. As the last angry man on the planet, he has to use the foulest language he can think of. He even