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The title refers to the ultra high frequency (UHF) analog television broadcasting band on which such low-budget television stations were often placed in the United States. Yankovic and Levey wrote the film following Yankovic's second album, "Weird Al" Yankovic in 3-D , and set parodies within George's vivid imagination.
UHF is a 1989 movie starring "Weird Al" Yankovic, written by Al and his manager Jay Levey (who directed). Al plays George Newman, a young man with an all-too-fertile imagination adrift in life.
UHF: Directed by Jay Levey. With 'Weird Al' Yankovic, Victoria Jackson, Kevin McCarthy, Michael Richards. An unemployed visionary becomes the manager of a local television station. The station becomes a success, with all sorts of hilarious sight gags and wacky humor.
UHF (released internationally as The Vidiot From UHF) is a 1989 American slapstick comedy movie that "Weird Al" Yankovic wrote and starred in. The movie was released on June 21, 1989 in the United States, and marked Yankovic's feature film debut.
ON SCREEN: UHF (1989) – also starring Michael Richards, Fran Drescher, Victoria Jackson, Kevin McCarthy, Anthony Geary, Gedde Wattanabe, Billy Barty, John Paragon, David Bowe, Stanley Brock, Sue Ane Langdon, Trinidad Silva and Emo Philips.
Watchlist. NEW. After losing yet another job, George (Weird Al Yankovic) wonders if there is any career that can handle his outrageous personality. When George's uncle (Stanley Brock) hands him...
The eccentric new manager of a UHF television channel tries to save the station from financial ruin with an odd array of programming.
