Pump Up the Volume (1990) is a comedy-drama written and directed by Allan Moyle and starring Christian Slater and Samantha Mathis. The original music score was composed by Cliff Martinez.
Filming locations included Saugus High School and other locations around Saugus, California, USA. Although the film takes place at the fictional "Hubert Humphrey High" in Arizona, the real school's markers can be seen in a few tracking shots.
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Pump Up the Volume (1990) is a comedy-drama written and directed by Allan Moyle and starring Christian Slater and Samantha Mathis. The original music score was composed by Cliff Martinez.
Filming locations included Saugus High School and other locations around Saugus, California, USA. Although the film takes place at the fictional "Hubert Humphrey High" in Arizona, the real school's markers can be seen in a few tracking shots.
Mark Hunter (Slater), a high school student in a sleepy Arizona suburb, starts a VHF pirate radio station that broadcasts from his bedroom transmitter in the basement of his parent's house. Mark is a loner, an outsider, whose only outlet for his teenage angst and aggression is his unauthorized radio station. His pirate station's theme song is "Everybody Knows" by Leonard Cohen and there are glimpses of cassettes by such alternative musicians as The Jesus and Mary Chain, Camper Van Beethoven, Primal Scream, Ice-T, Bad Brains, Concrete Blonde, Henry Rollins, and...
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