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Pump Up the Volume (1990)
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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...
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Pump Up the Volume Movie Review by Ben  (12/17/2007) |
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Of all the movies I have seen about growing up as a teenager, this one is far and away my favorite. It is also the one that hit me the hardest emotionally in that after seeing all these movies about the nerds and jocks fighting each other on school grounds, this one had characters that I could actually relate to. We were...
(complete Pump Up the Volume review by Ben)
| Pump Up the Volume Movie Review by Zara (1/30/2007) |
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"They think you're moody, make 'em think you're crazy. Make 'em think you might snap. They say you got attitude, you show 'em some real attitude."
The advice given by the normally bashful high school student Mark when he's on the radio as Hard Harry. Words to live by if you ask me.
It's usually the people who have had so...
(complete Pump Up the Volume review by Zara)
| Pump Up the Volume Movie Review by Thom (5/9/2008) |
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What in retrospect seems to be a Christian Slater star vehicle to someone that wasn't around and cognizant at the time, Pump Up the Volume is, in my opinion, one of those lightning in a bottle films in which the lightning unfortunately strikes out in the middle of the ocean where no one can see. On top of that, it was...
(complete Pump Up the Volume review by Thom)
By day new-in-town Mark is a reclusive high school student with no friends and even less social skills. But by night, hidden behind a microphone on his pirate radio station he runs out of his bedroom, Mark becomes Hard Harry, a voice for the town's angst-filled youth. His take-no-prisoners attitude stirs up his fellow...
(complete Pump Up the Volume review by Ryan Midnight)
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