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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93%
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.
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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RayRay is "meh" on
Pump Up the Volume
I liked this as a kid, but holy hell was it corny on a rewatch. He got so worked up over nothing by the way — it became something but started as nothing.
Corny as fuck
Concept was great, but it was a tricky customer to sit through.
Wish it dealt with deeper subject matter
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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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