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Pump Up the Volume (1990) 7.1
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Reviews: 119 user | 53 critic | 16 from Metacritic.com Mark runs a pirate radio station and causes an uproar when he speaks his mind and enthralls fellow teens. Director:Allan MoyleWriter:Allan Moyle |
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Mark is an intelligent but shy teenager who has just moved to Arizona from the East Coast. His parents give him a short-wave radio so he can talk to his pals, but instead he sets up shop as pirate deejay Hard Harry, who becomes a hero to his peers while inspiring the wrath of the local high school principal. When one of Harry's listeners commits suicide and Harry- inspired chaos breaks out at the school, the authorities are called in to put a stop to Harry's broadcasts. Written by Denise P. Meyer <dpm1@cornell.edu>
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Language:
EnglishRelease Date:
22 August 1990 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Adj rá kakaót! See more »Box Office
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$11,541,758 (USA)Company Credits
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Mark: Do you ever get the feeling that everything in America is completely fucked up?
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Written by Frank Black
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Published by Rice & Beans Music (BMI)
Courtesy of 4AD/Elektra Entertainment by arrangement with Warner Special Products
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Christian Slater became physically ill several times during filming due to all the cigarette smoking he had to do. See more »Goofs
Hard Harry uses a voice disguiser, but in the recordings of his show, his voice is unmasked. See more »Quotes
[first lines]Mark: Do you ever get the feeling that everything in America is completely fucked up?
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Wave of Mutilation (U.K. Surf)Written by Frank Black
Performed by Pixies (as The Pixies)
Published by Rice & Beans Music (BMI)
Courtesy of 4AD/Elektra Entertainment by arrangement with Warner Special Products
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I first saw this film around 1996, when I was 13 and just going into that 'I hate the world and everything about it' phase that most teenagers go through. I fell in love with it there and then and over the years I've owned 5 separate copies.
Not just because of the unbelievably brilliant soundtrack, not just because of the real and relate-able characters, not just because of the engaging and original plot, but because I still feel now, what I first felt when I saw the film. Sometimes everyone feels that they're alone and it takes another voice, one coming from a someone you might not even ever have met reminding you that everyone feels that crushing loneliness and only you can change that.
Even now that I'm nearing my mid-twenties and every time I watch this film I want to 'Rise up in the cafeteria' and 'stab my teachers with a plastic fork.' Being a teenager sucks, its probably the most free time of your life, but everything from parents, to homework, to hormones prevents most from truly enjoying the experience.
I want every teenager to watch this film, I want every person who looks back on their teen years with regret to watch this film, I want every person who's forgotten what its like to be a teenager to watch this film. I think there's room in just about everyone's heart for it.