Pump up the Volume
by Allan Moyle
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Actor: Andy Romano, Annie Ross, Christian Slater, Samantha Mathis, Scott PaulinDirector: Allan Moyle
Writer: Allan Moyle
Producer: Janet Grillo
Producer: Nicolas Stiliadis
Producer: Rupert Harvey
Producer: Sandy Stern
Producer: Sara Risher
Producer: Syd Cappe
DVD: 2 Sides, Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 1.85:1
Running Time: 102 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1999-12-21
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: New Line Home Video
Movie Reviews of Pump up the Volume
Movie Review: Absolutely fantastic movie
Summary: 5 Stars
It had been several years since I had last watched Pump Up The Volume, so when I saw it for sale here for so cheap, I knew I had to buy it. It arrived quickly and well packaged. PUTV was just as good as I remember it being. I've watched it at least once a week since purchase. The video and audio are both great. If you are a Christian Slater fan, you need to have Pump Up The Volume on DVD. It is a great companion piece to Kuffs, which is another great Christian Slater movie. Samantha Mathis looks great in her role as well.
Summary of Pump up the Volume
A shy teen turns on the high school crowd when he broadcasts outrageous nightly monologues on a pirate radio station. Starring Christian Slater and Samantha Mathis.In the suburban hinterlands of Arizona, pirate-radio DJ Hard Harry wages a one-man war against boredom from his bedroom transmitter by night. In between great Lenny Bruce-style stream-of-consciousness rants, Harry attacks the airwaves with the likes of the Descendents, Bad Brains, and Concrete Blonde, as well as occasionally kickin' it old school with some early hip-hop. By day, though, Hard Harry is Mark Hunter, a painfully shy new kid who's anonymous to the point of being invisible at Hubert Humphrey High School. Completely misunderstood by his '60s-era parents, Mark is desperate to keep his radio alter ego separate from his day-to-day persona, especially as his radio shows draw more attention from the authorities. Fellow misfit Nora (Samantha Mathis, in her first feature role) eventually discovers Hard Harry's true identity, much to Mark's chagrin, and the two of them become torchbearers against the stifling status quo of the town as they dodge the police, the school administration, and the FCC. There are familiar high school authority archetypes (the assistant principal with clip-on tie, lemon-yellow K-Mart short-sleeved dress shirt, military flattop, and bulky key ring) and a rather strained subplot of a corrupt school administration. Mainly, though, this is a rousing teen call-to-arms that showcases Slater's talents as he developed the cynical, sarcastic neo-Jack Nicholson delivery that would become his trademark. He's at his best during his radio monologues (making them truly seem ad-libbed), and his influences become clear as he checks out a copy of How to Talk Dirty and Influence People from the library. --Jerry Renshaw
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