Pump Up the Volume
1990
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Movie
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102 min
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Drama
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Music
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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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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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Jimmy Cricket loved
Pump Up the Volume
A fun movie about the power of the human voice and freedom of speech. Some good songs on the soundtrack (Leonard Cohen specifically). Gets a bit heavy handed by the end and doesn’t touch upon the guilt aspect enough but the issues it deals with still prevail today.
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Jimmy Cricket loved
Pump Up the Volume
A fun movie about the power of the human voice and freedom of speech. Some good songs on the soundtrack (Leonard Cohen specifically). Gets a bit heavy handed by the end and doesn’t touch upon the guilt aspect enough but the issues it deals with still prevail today.
115d