It is perhaps this void that makes Allan Moyle's Pump up the Volume all the more exceptional. Set in Hubert Humphrey High, an average US high school, the film narrates the story of Happy Harry Hard-on, played by Christian Slater, a pirate radio jock who broadcasts a mix of hardcore rock music and fiery musings on how it really feels to be young in small-town America. Soon his illicit broadcasts become a sensation for the students at the school, and as his message starts to wake them from their learned helplessness against their oppressive surroundings, everyone over 25 suddenly wants him silenced.
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