UHF (film)

UHF released internationally as The Vidiot from UHF is a 1989 American comedy film starring Weird Al Yankovic, David Bowe, Fran Drescher, Victoria Jackson, Kevin McCarthy, Michael Richards, Gedde Watanabe, Billy Barty, Anthony Geary, Emo Philips and Trinidad Silva the film is dedicated to Silva who died shortly after principal filming. The film was directed by Jay Levey, Yankovics manager, who also cowrote the screenplay with him. It was released by Orion Pictures and presently owned by MetroGoldwynMayer.

George Newman Weird Al Yankovic is a Walter Mittyesque daydreamer whose hyperactive imagination keeps him and his friend Bob David Bowe from holding a steady job. Georges uncle Harvey Bilchik Stanley Brock wins the deed to Channel 62, a UHF television station on the verge of bankruptcy, in a poker game. His wife Esther Sue Ane Langdon talks him into giving control of Channel 62 to the outofwork George. George and Bob meet the Channel 62 staff which is made up of the receptionist and wannabe reporter Pamela Finklestein Fran Drescher, dwarf photojournalist and cameraman Noodles MacIntosh Billy Barty, an unnamed overweight cameraman Lou B. Washington, and eccentric engineer Philo Anthony Geary. George attempts to introduce himself to the rival VHF network station Channel 8, but its owner, the grumpy and meanspirited R. J. Fletcher Kevin McCarthy, angrily chases him out. On his way out of the station he encounters janitor Stanley Spadowski Michael Richards, who had just been fired by Fletcher. George offers him a janitorial job at Channel 62.Though George creates new original programming in an attempt to revive the stations fortunes, ratings stay flat and Bob determines that Channel 62 is days away from insolvency after going through the stations books. George and Bob stay late at the station brainstorming ways to keep it afloat, which causes George to accidentally stand up his girlfriend Teri Victoria Jackson on her birthday, causing her to break up with him. The next day a despondent George walks out in the middle of filming the kids show Uncle Nutzys Clubhouse so he can go to the bar. Stanley takes over as host and his bizarre antics are an instant hit with the audience Stanley Spadowskis Clubhouse becomes a massive ratings smash that saves the station from bankruptcy. Channel 62 finds success with a line up of bizarre original shows and Spadowski as its flagship star. ........

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