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1961
Cleveland, Ohio
Payola
Karchy Jonas (Brad Renfrow) and his father Dr. Istvan Jonas (Maximilian Schell) are Hungarian immigrants who are striving to become citizens.
Karchy struggles to be popular at the parochial school overseen by Father Norton (Paul Dooley) and learns how to flirt with an older girl, Diney Majeski (Calista Flockhart), who he works with at a market egg counter owned by the stern Henry (Luke Wilson).
When a new deejay hits the airwaves in Cleveland, Karchy runs his own little campaign to be "elected" to the scheming Billy Magic's (Kevin Bacon) High School Hall of Fame. Though he's lied to win the honor and Billy Magic questions him about it, Karchy is precisely the sort of underage ally Magic needs to collect payola.
Jonathan Rhys Meyers also appears.
Directed by Guy Ferland. Written by Joe Eszterhas.
Run Time: 1 hour, 41 minutes
My personal rating: B
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