![]() ![]() ![]() Unable to talk to anybody in his new surroundings, he finds his voice behind a microphone in the isolation of the basement bedroom where he broadcasts his pirate radio show. Starring Christian Slater, and written and directed by Allan Moyle ( Empire Records, Times Square), Pump Up the Volume tells the story of Mark Hunter, a teenager whose parents transplant him from New York City to suburban Arizona. These are angsty times we’re living in, which is just one reason that Pump Up the Volume, an incredibly influential if criminally under-seen teen drama released 30 years ago on August 22, feels so resonant right now, despite its late-’80s/early-’90s fashion and technology. No matter what year you were born in, it’s tough not to get those teenage feelings these days, since nearly every person in a position of power seems either incompetent, indifferent, or actively trying to screw you over. ) kind of sucks, and you weren’t sure how or if they’d ever stop sucking. And maybe you first got that feeling back when you were a teenager, sitting alone in your bedroom or on a couch in front of your parents’ TV, realizing how much everything in the world (friends, family, school, work, hormones, you, the president, cops, racism, sexism, homophobia, religion, network sitcoms, pretentious movies, corporate media, opportunistic activists, cash-in nostalgia, turtles dying from plastic in the ocean, deodorant commercials. Maybe it came just this morning, waking up to a deluge of terrible, terrifying news and a bunch of possible solutions to problems where it still feels like everybody loses. These words, coming from a distorted, disembodied voice, are how the 1990 film Pump Up the Volume begins. ![]() “You ever get the feeling that everything in America is completely fucked up?” ![]()
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