Pump Up the Volume
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- Synopsis
- Teenage angst finds a new voice in this drama. By day, Mark Hunter (Christian Slater) is a quiet, studious student at an ordinary suburban high school in Arizona....
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- Starring
- Christian Slater, Samantha Mathis, Ellen Greene, Scott Paulin, Cheryl Pollak
- Director(s)
- Allan Moyle
- Distributor(s)
- New Line Cinema
- MPAA Rating
- R
- Runtime
- 105 min.
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Critic Reviews
Unlike "Heathers," a satiric treatment of teen suicide, Pump Up the Volume is passionately caring. It's a howl from the heart, a relentlessly involving movie that gives a kid every reason to believe that he or she can come of age. It appreciates the pimples and pitfalls of this frightening passage, the transit commonly known as adolescence.Read the full review
It's a celebration of free expression that treats youth like a fierce and beautiful animal, and never attempts to tame it. In Pump Up the Volume, the "why-bother" generation finds a voice, and begins to bother. [22 Aug 1990, p.47]Read the full review
Pump Up the Volume, in addition to presenting an engaging story, has tapped into a universal truth about rebels with causes.Read the full review
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