UHF (1989)

6.7	Listal rating
6.7	IMDB rating

Directed by

Jay Levey

Starring (View all)

George Newman

Teri

R.J. Fletcher

Stanley Spadowski

Bob

Stanley Brock

Uncle Harvey

Anthony Geary

Philo

Trinidad Silva

Raul Hernandez

Written by (View all)

'Weird Al' Yankovic

Jay Levey

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i want my uhf

6 years, 3 months ago at Jan 27 14:19

[dave]

5 votes

Cameos, spoofs, and quotable... all involving Weird Al. It's a great movie, especially when you want to laugh at people being dumb and clever at the same time. How can you not like a movie that has a kid drinking from a fire hose?

I want it all, on UHF

6 years, 4 months ago at Jan 26 11:59

SuperSpongy

2 votes

Didn't do so hot when it first came out, I guess it's just not for people outside the Weird Al fan group. It had a tough release date with movies like Batman, Indy 3, and Lethal Weapon 2 coming out about the same time, not much room for Al.
Typical Al, lots of parodies, silliness, pointlessness, and Michael Richards as the goofy janitor/tv host. I am a fan of simple movies that you don'... read more

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An unemployed visionary finds a job as the manager of a television station his uncle owns. Unfortunately, due to gambling debts, the uncle is forced to consider selling the station to a rival station's owner. With popular less-then network standards of programming, George and his friends try to save the town's new favorite station.

Release date : 21 July 1989
UPC: 027616876652

Comedy (18), Spoof (10), Music (8), 1980s (6), 1989 (4), Weird Al (4), Television (4), Parody (3), Slapstick (3), Independent Film (3), Cult Classic (3), Insult (2), Kidnapping (2), Chases (2), Bug (2), Buddies (2), Camera (2), Janitor (2), Showbiz (2), Good Guy (1)

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"I wonder how many laughs there will be when the movie does go public. It's routine, predictable, and dumb - real dumb. - Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times Moments of off-centre humour, but an hour and a half of parodist Weird Al is a severe test. - Geoff Andrew, Time Out The dumbness just never stops -- just buying a ticket lowers your IQ. - Rita Kempley, Washington Post "

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"UHF directed by Jay Levey Movies that are just for me # 3 If you wanna be cruel, you could almost say Weird Al's style of spoofing is closer to Seltzer/Friedberg stuff than, say, Brooks or Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker (!!!). By this I mean, he recreates scenes from famous movies with no real connection to the plot whatsoever and changes lines or something. The difference? He's funny. Admittedly, Weird Al's sense of humor can be kind of impish and over-the-top but it's very much in the style of hi"

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