Pump Up the Volume (film)

Pump Up the Volume is a 1990 comedydrama film written and directed by Allan Moyle and starring Christian Slater and Samantha Mathis.

Nobody knows the true identity of Hard Harry or Happy Harry Hardon, as Mark refers to himself, until Nora Diniro Mathis, a fellow student, tracks him down and confronts him the day after a student named Malcolm commits suicide after Harry attempts to reason with him. The radio show becomes increasingly popular and influential after Harry confronts the suicide headon, exhorting his listeners to do something about their problems instead of surrendering to them through suicideat the crescendo of his yelled speech, an overachieving student named Paige Woodward who has been a constant listener jams her various medals and accolades into a microwave and turns it on. She then sits, watching the awards cook until the microwave explodes, injuring her. While this is happening, other students act out in cathartic release.Eventually, the radio show causes so much trouble in the community that the FCC is called in to investigate. During the fracas, it is revealed that the schools principal Annie Ross has been expelling problem students, namely, students with belowaverage standardized test scores, in an effort to boost the districts test scores while still keeping their names on the rolls a criminal offense in order to keep the government money. ........

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