UHF

Genre: Comedy

Worldwide gross$6.2M

George Newman is a daydreamer whose hyperactive imagination keeps him from holding a steady job. His uncle decides George would be the perfect man to manage Channel 62, a television station which is losing money and viewers fast. When George replaces the station's reruns with bizarre programs such as "Stanley Spadowski's Clubhouse", "Wheel of Fish" and "Raul's Wild Kingdom", ratings begin to soar again. Mean-spirited and cynical mogul R.J. Fletcher becomes furious that the UHF station is getting better ratings than his network's programming. Because of gambling debts, the uncle is forced to consider selling the station to Fletcher, who would only too happily shut it down (he cannot legally own two stations in the same town). George and his friends organize a 48-hour telethon to raise the money by selling investment stock from Channel 62 to save the town's new favorite station.

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Genres

Comedy, Sci-Fi

Director

Jay Levey

Cast

'Weird Al' Yankovic, Victoria Jackson, Kevin McCarthy

Released

21 July 1989

Runtime

1h 37m

Certificate

PG-13

IMDb rating

6.9 / 10

Votes

33,340

Metascore

32

Rotten Tomatoes

64%

Box office

$6,157,157

Edition

Base