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Pump Up The Volume | Year: 1990 Classification: Drama Directed: - Allan Moyle Actors/Actresses: - Ahmet Zappa - Samantha Mathis - Seth Green - Christian Slater An Entertaining, Yet Serious, Look at Censorship in the U.S. Long before "The people vs. Larry Flint" or Howard Stern's "Private Parts" addressed the problem of censorship imposed by the U.S. government on media personalities and products, there was "Pump Up The Volume." "Pump Up The Volume" varies from the Flint and Stern movies in that it is not glorifying a specific person (i.e. Flint and Stern, who just coincidently happen to gain publicity and movie proceeds). Slater's best film and performance, a great movie experience Christian Slater is the man as Hard Harry, hes this radio host on a pirate radio and he makes all these jokes and plays distasteful music and he exploits teh school he goes to. This movie is good, its funny, its thought provoking and its a good time and there's unreckanizeable parts in the movie by Seth Green and Juliet Landau who several years later worked on the cast and crew of "Buffy The Vampire Slayer" and at that time Seth Green was starting out in movies. ok, back to the movie, it is to me Slater's best next to Heathers. My favorite scene in the movie is when Slater tells everyone to go crazy, live your lives and he calls the dean and the dean says the F.C.C. is on its way, but Slater cleverly makes the signal is everywhere, I thought that was cool and how Allan Moyle sort of depickted the high school students and the manipulative school staff, also its the first roll for Samantha Mathis who later on starred with Slater in Broken Arrow Stab them with your plastic forks One of my favorite movies, Pump Up the Volume is a film that has a great message and a cool cast. Christian Slater is perfect as Harry/Mark, I think this is his best role, his second best being JD in Heathers. Samantha Mathis is also great in her role has Nora. It's a movie that has a message about censorship, teen suicide, pressures in society, freedom of expression and it also has a great soundtrack with lots of music Hard Harry plays on his pirate radio station. It's a movie that, even with it's slightly serious tone, makes you feel free and gives you a lift. I really think everyone should see this movie, it's one of my top 5. It also has tons of great quotes, especially things Harry says during his radio broadcasts. Buy Pump Up The Volume at Amazon.com Buy posters at Allposters.com Jamster - the latest ringtones for your phone!  Search with Walhello on the Internet on Pump Up The Volume Search with the Priority Search Engine on Pump Up The Volume This page in other languages: Suomeksi | Nederlands | Deutsch
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