FM

Dugan, who's heavily into the music biz, is against commercials on commercial radio (but since QSKY pumps out an endless stream of Ronstadt, the Eagles and Queen, wouldn't a few mindless jingles go unnoticed?)

A preposterously self-serving variation on 1960's themes.

It gets the standard rock-movie formula backwards by trying to base a revolution around some of the safest, least revolutionary music in the history of rock.

Embarrassing youth cult film, founded on the shaky premise that the staff of a "progressive" LA rock station have to fight their management for the right to play Olivia Newton-John.

The "us against the establishment" plotline is hoary and silly, and the movie fares better when it focuses on specific character incidents rather than any greater themes.

Mull, as a spaced-out DJ, steals the show, emanating energy with which neither the other actors nor the music can compete.

FM, for all its ingratiating players, is an unredeemable mess that can't even make it to simplistic.

Completely of its time.