UHF
1989, PG-13, 97 min.
Directed by Jay Levey, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring “Weird Al” Yankovic, Victoria Jackson, Kevin McCarthy, Michael Richards, Billy Barty.

“Weird Al” plays the manager of a small-time TV station who hits it big with his unconventional programming. Most of the movie is a series of parodic television spoofs, with few other plot niceties to get in the way.

This article appears in May 10 • 2002.

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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.