Pump Up the Volume
Movie • 1990 • Drama
ReportMark Hunter is an intelligent but shy teenager who has just moved to suburban Arizona from New York. Unbeknownst to his parents and peers, at 10pm each school night Mark takes to the shortwave radio in his basement and transforms into pirate DJ "Hard Harry". Mark's show, at once thoughtful and profane, becomes an underground hit with students at his high school, inspiring the wrath of his principal and the Federal Communications Commission [FCC].
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Are animals abused?
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There’s a kinda tense scene where the main character is holding a lizard kinda aggressively and it seems like he might hurt it but he doesn’t.
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Some parental neglect and implied emotional abuse of teenagers.
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Are there snakes?
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No snakes but there is a lizard.
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A teenaged boy commits suicide. Not shown but discussed, including how he plans to do it,
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Teen suicide is a pretty major part of the story.
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Are there homophobic slurs?
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A gay teenager refers to himself as the f-slur. Something along the lines of “I know you think I’m just some f****t…”
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Does it have a sad ending?
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Wouldn’t say the ending is sad, but (SPOILERS) the main characters are arrested at the end… although they accomplished what they set out to accomplish and the movie definitely frames it as worth it.
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