UHF (film)

UHF - transmitter with limited Hope is an American comedy film from the year 1989.

Action

Dreamy George Newman ( "Weird Al " Yankovic ) loses his amusing daydreams a job after another, what his best friend and constant companion Bob (David Bowe ) slowly bring to the brink of despair. Georges Uncle Harvey wins a game of poker television rights of Channel 62, a small and rather scruffy TV station. His wife persuaded him to transfer the management of George. Shaping the beginnings, however, be very difficult, especially since channel 62 has no original attraction.

When you visit the competition, channel 8, owned by the media mogul RJ Fletcher ( Kevin McCarthy), George learns the just -fired janitor Stanley Spadowski (Michael Richards ) know and sets it promptly. When channel 62 bankruptcy is imminent and Georges girlfriend Teri (Victoria Jackson) can sit for a forgotten appointment, leaving the kinked George Stanley, a children's program, which immediately becomes a huge success by Stanley naturally freaky way. The success rate of channel 62 on meteoric rises in the air, which in turn RJ Fletcher do not like.

Through a botched horse racing bet Uncle Harvey owes the bookmaker Big Louie $ 75,000, payable in three days. Fletcher wants to use the opportunity to buy the station and close simultaneously. George and his crew try to save the channel, which in turn causes Fletcher to kidnap the star of the transmitter, Stanley, through the sale of shares. The help of his friends and a small but crucial mistake on the part of Fletcher succeeds George and the others, however, the channel to save 62 while stomping channel 8 in the ground, and also Teri reconciled again with George.

Criticism

"From a " movie freak "with numerous film quotes enriched, turbulent satire, which, like the American genre cinema of the '80s" soap operas "of the U.S. television pulling his leg. Sometimes too tough and hectic. " "

Background information

  • The station engineer is called Philo, an homage to Philo Farnsworth, a pioneer in the development of television technology.
  • The opening sequence parodies the film Raiders of the Lost Ark.
  • Da Silva Trinidad ( Raul ) died during the period of production of a collision, parts of the film had to be rewritten. The film is dedicated to him.
  • In the DVD commentary Yankovic says that Mike Judge was a big fan of UHF and that " Burger World " in Beavis and Butt-Head is a tribute to this film.
  • The role of Philo was originally intended for Joel Hodgson.
  • Because the song Kung Fu Fighting - intended for the scene in which Uncle Harvey a threatening phone call while relaxing in his pool receives - for cost reasons, could not be used, Yankovic wrote a short rock song called Let Me Be Your Hog.
  • In a scene in which Raul (Trinidad Silva ) a new batch gets Animals for another mission, he complains: "We need no stinking badgers! " This is one ( in German non-transferable ) pun on a quote from the Western movie The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, the original of his "We do not need no stinking badges! " ( " badges" = badge) was changed to " badgers " ( = badgers ).
1989 in film Screenplay Film score Kevin McCarthy (actor) David Bowe (actor) Carl Douglas The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (film)
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