Pump Up the Volume Page #2

Synopsis: 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 and Harry- inspired chaos breaks out at the school, the authorities are called in to put a stop to Harry's broadcasts.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Director(s): Allan Moyle
Production: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
  3 wins & 5 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.2
Metacritic:
77
Rotten Tomatoes:
79%
R
Year:
1990
102 min
1,557 Views


That was deep.

Oh, no. Not again.

The creature stirs.

Oh, God, I think

it's gonna be a gusher.

This is the sixth time

in an hour.

Oh, God.

He sounds like

a chronic masturbator.

He prides himself on it.

See? I have to take care of it.

Or else I'm going to explode.

Just excuse me while l...

Oh, my God, this is the biggest.

Whoa, Nellie! Whoa!

God! I'm gonna explode!

Oh, take cover, Arizona!

Here l--

Any time now, man.

Oh, God.

Oh, God, it's the best.

Oh, God, yeah.

Free at last.

I'm beat. I'm whipped.

Quittin' time.

Gotta recuperate.

There he goes.

Sometimes he's on

for five minutes...

sometimes he's on

for five hours.

That's my man.

God, I feel

so out of touch here.

Honey, we didn't move out here

to stay in touch.

Then why did we move out here?

Because

it's a nice place to live.

I'm making good money...

and I'm the youngest

school commissioner...

in the history of Arizona.

Brian, you know what?

The man I married loved

his work, not power and money.

That's all right.

I still love my work.

And I love power and money.

When you were

young radical Brian...

you were always fighting

against the system...

and now you are the system.

Now I am the system, yeah.

Is that a beer?

Sure.

Have you noticed

his behavior lately?

What about him?

He's just so unhappy here.

I'll go talk to him.

What's up?

I was just looking

for some stamps.

Oh, fine. I got some right here.

Going to send a letter to

one of your friends back east?

No. I thought I might send away

for an inflatable date.

You know, one of these days...

you're gonna outsmart yourself,

young man.

I love it when you

call me "young man."

You know, when I was your age...

I was on all the teams

and a bunch of clubs.

Look, all I'm saying is...

that school must have some

really terrific programs.

It's very highly rated.

Just save it for the masses, OK?

Mark, they've got twelve hundred

students at that school.

Certainly,

some of them got to be cool.

Look, the deal is,

I get decent grades...

you guys leave me alone, right?

OK, who is this guy?

I don't know.

Nobody knows who he is, but he

really hates this school...

so I guess he goes here.

Yeah, but all the guys

that go here are geeks.

Maybe not, my dear.

Later.

Later.

"And so then

the Logicars questioned...

"the few remaining Despars

more and more.

"They began to fade away...

"until there was nothing

left of them...

"and they disappeared

from the face of the Earth."

Pretty good, huh?

Leading with your heart,

not your mind.

Mark, I wondered

if you'd tell us...

what you were thinking

about when you wrote this.

I just wrote it late last night.

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Allan Moyle

Allan Moyle (born 1947 in Shawinigan, Quebec) is a Canadian film director. He is best known for directing the films Pump Up the Volume (1990) and Empire Records (1995). more…

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