Watch: Pump Up the Volume 1990 123movies, Full Movie Online – 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, inspired chaos breaks out at the school and the authorities are called in to put a stop to Harry’s broadcasts..
Plot: Mark Hunter, a lonely high school student, uses his shortwave radio to moonlight as the popular pirate DJ “Hard Harry.” When his show gets blamed for a teen committing suicide, the students clash with high school faculty and the authorities.
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A pure distillation of teen angst
In a suffocating upper middle class suburb, an angry teen’s pirate radio station offers a clarion call to his peers: Everything is terrible, and we should do … something!The movie doesn’t really explain too clearly what’s terrible, beyond parents and a bit of corruption introduced late in the movie just to prove the DJ is right, but that doesn’t matter, because angsty teens don’t need proof that parents suck and the school is a mind-killing fascist state.
You could dismiss this as a movie about privileged white teens throwing a tantrum, but the movie is so compelling that you probably won’t. With Christian Slater perfect as an angry DJ by night and a shy kid by day, the movie runs on passion and a great soundtrack (with songs ranging from Everybody Knows to Dad I’m in Jail), and you totally believe every unlikely second, as kids consistently outwit remarkably stupid and cartoonish adults and start a movement to …
It’s unclear what the agenda is, beyond free speech and being true to yourself, but it doesn’t really matter. Even if it’s unclear what the revolution is, this movie makes you want to sign up.
Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 42 min (102 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 11500000
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Comedy, Drama, Music
Director Allan Moyle
Writer Allan Moyle
Actors Christian Slater, Samantha Mathis, Anthony Lucero
Country United States, Canada
Awards 3 wins & 5 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A
Sound Mix Dolby (RCA Sound Recording)
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera Panavision Cameras and Lenses
Laboratory N/A
Film Length 2,782 m (Sweden)
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm