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| Pump up the Volume | 
 enlarge | Director: Allan Moyle
Actors: Anthony Lucero, Andy Romano, Keith Stuart Thayer, Cheryl Pollak, Jeff Chamberlain
Studio: New Line Home Video
Category: DVD
List Price: $9.98
Buy Used: $1.21
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Avg. Customer Rating:  66 reviews
Sales Rank: 7118
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Full Screen, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 102
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
DVD Layers: 1
DVD Sides: 2
Picture Format: Array
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 4.9 x 0.6
MPN: TRNDN4894D
ISBN: 0780628411
UPC: 794043489426
EAN: 9780780628410
ASIN: B000031EG0
Theatrical Release Date: August 22, 1990
Release Date: December 21, 1999
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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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 persona, especially as his radio shows draw more attention from the authorities. Fellow misfit Nora (Samantha Mathis, in her first feature role) eventually discovers Hard Harry's true identity, much to Mark's chagrin, and the two of them become torchbearers against the stifling status quo of the town as they dodge the police, the school administration, and the FCC. There are familiar high school authority archetypes (the assistant principal with clip-on tie, lemon-yellow K-Mart short-sleeved dress shirt, military flattop, and bulky key ring) and a rather strained subplot of a corrupt school administration. Mainly, though, this is a rousing teen call-to-arms that showcases Slater's talents as he developed the cynical, sarcastic neo-Jack Nicholson delivery that would become his trademark. He's at his best during his radio monologues (making them truly seem ad-libbed), and his influences become clear as he checks out a copy of How to Talk Dirty and Influence People from the library. --Jerry Renshaw
Product Description
By day mark hunter is a painfully shy new kid in a small arizona town. But by night hes hard harry the cynical uncensored dj of a pirate radio station who inspires his classmates to find their own voices of rebellion and individuality. Subtitles in english. Theatrical trailer & more. Studio: New Line Home Video Release Date: 04/03/2007 Starring: Christian Slater Samantha Mathis Run time: 105 minutes Rating: R
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 VOLUME NEEDS RESPECT October 20, 2008
This is one of those movies that deserves the special edition treatment, but has yet to see one. And, to the person that cited DREAM A LITTLE DREAM as being on the same level, you have no taste. DREAM A LITTLE DREAM is mediocre and shouldn't be mentioned in relation to VOLUME, or John Hughes, or GOOD.
Best teen film ever made. July 12, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is one of my favorite movies. It is definitely the last great teen movie. Maybe the best teen movie. I think when I first saw this film afterwards I felt like rebelling for the first time.
Two thumbs up from S & E February 14, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Released between Heathers and True Romance, this movie is an often forgotten Christian Slater classic. Full of teen angst BS, it's also a heart-felt story with believable characters on all sides. If you didn't see it before the age of 20, you probably will think it's juvinile in it's outlook, but if you did, it's a nice reminder of how it felt to grow up post Reagan and pre internet.
 Wave of Mutilation ... January 31, 2008
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Having watched this again for the second time in my life I have to say that I'm surprised at how well this film holds up. Notice - I called it a film and not a movie. The last time I saw this was in a dark theatre the weekend it was released in 1990. Christian Slater probably delivers his most memorable performance yet in this film despite the popularity of Heathers which is actually dominated by Winona Ryder.
"Pump up the Volume" was an underground hit and must-see VHS rental for about 10 years for anyone who was listening to grunge, a teenager, trapped inside a suburban nightmare or just feeling isolated. The idea of the system being inaccessible, out-of-touch and overt and too much in-your-business still resonates just as strong today as it did then.
Strangely, "Pump up the Volume" is one of the best and seminal `John Hughes' style Teen Eighties movies from that era and being released in 1990, might just make it the last. The previous year produced the much darker book-end to that style with Dream a Little Dream, but "Pump up the Volume" trumps it well and seemingly closes the door on High School forever, or at least until the release of Brick in 2005 or Accepted in 2006.
Overall, a good movie, worth seeing again even though some of the soundtrack is severely dated. The Pixies "Wave of Mutilation" holds strong though and delivers a nice montage sequence mid-way through the film, making a nice comment of suburban blight.
Like it or not, this movie ROCKS big time...!!! December 3, 2007
This movie is not just a "cliche" of teenagers not being understood by their parents. It is more than that, and has different levels. Try to understand the differences between living in the city and a very small old fashioned town in the States; and how much it affects an adolescent the moving out from one to another, and how to canalize the psychological effects.
On the other hand the adolescence is a very interesting period of our lives in which we are looking for our own identity and personality (not an easy thing); and you can easily be influence by anyone who seems to have an answer, which in the movie Happy Harry doesn't really have many answers, but at least encourages people to look for them, and not just do what you're told to do, and live a stereotype kind of life (like the perfect "A" girl), yes...?.
On another point you can see the typical disturbed administration and teachers of many schools, criticized in videos like Pink Floyd's magnificent "Happiest days of our lives", in Pump Up the Volume is criticized and beaten in the same way (beat the system with a good proposal is a nice fantasy to fight for...). You can see the different kind of parents we all have. The different kind of classmates we are. You can also see the way a person can act when is protected by being anonymous. Also there's a very deep meaning in the sentence Harry says: "look what the sixties did to them" or something like that: it means that most of those revels whit out a cause or stoned hippies ended up being, is just a corporate employee or part of the system they were "fighting" in the beginning; so, as I said the movie has different levels and it is a very good one. I'm sorry for those of you who think is not, go to a physiologist first, then watch the movie and see if you get it next time.
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