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Allan Moyle

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Allan Moyle in Weirdsville (2007)
A pair of slackers get in way over their heads when they try to dump the body of a dead girlfriend in the basement of a drive-in movie theater where a satanic cult performs ritual sacrifices.
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Unconventional filmmaker who moved from independent cinema into the Hollywood mainstream. Moyle became a sought-after writer-director after the surprising success of Pump Up the Volume (1990), a sleeper hit about teen angst starring Christian Slater. His previous directorial outing occurred a full decade earlier: the critically lambasted Times Square (1980), a flop which concerned the surprisingly tame adventures of two runaway teenage girls in the Big Apple. This film--Moyle's first studio directing assignment--was such an unpleasant experience for the neophyte filmmaker that he succumbed to a stress-related disorder that caused all his hair to fall out.

Moyle began his career as an actor and screenwriter working in close collaboration with Frank Vitale, a Canada-based independent filmmaker. Their film Montreal Main (1974) was a loosely structured quasi-documentary about gay life in Montreal. Moyle made his directorial debut with The Rubber Gun (1977), an exploration of the city's drug culture. In addition to acting in his own films, Moyle appeared in David Cronenberg's Rabid (1977) and had a major supporting role in Richard Benner's cult favorite, Outrageous! (1977). After the failure of TIMES SQUARE he left the industry for a ten-year period during which he wrote a novel and several screenplays, before PUMP UP THE VOLUME restored his commercial credibility.
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Christian Slater in Pump Up the Volume (1990)
Pump Up the Volume
7.2
  • Director
  • 1990
New Waterford Girl (1999)
New Waterford Girl
6.9
  • Director
  • 1999
Liv Tyler, Renée Zellweger, Robin Tunney, Rory Cochrane, Ethan Embry, and Johnny Whitworth in Empire Records (1995)
Empire Records
6.7
  • Director(directed by)
  • 1995
The Rubber Gun (1977)
The Rubber Gun
6.8
  • Director
  • 1977

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Director

  • How Sweet It Is
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    • Completed
  • Weirdsville (2007)
    Weirdsville
  • Flex Alexander in Man in the Mirror: The Michael Jackson Story (2004)
    Man in the Mirror: The Michael Jackson Story
  • Nastassja Kinski and William Baldwin in Say Nothing (2001)
    Say Nothing
  • Exhibit A: Secrets of Forensic Science (1997)
    Exhibit A: Secrets of Forensic Science
  • Stephen Baldwin in Xchange (2001)
    Xchange
  • Aly Purrott-Armstrong in Jailbait (2000)
    Jailbait
  • New Waterford Girl (1999)
    New Waterford Girl
  • Liv Tyler, Renée Zellweger, Robin Tunney, Rory Cochrane, Ethan Embry, and Johnny Whitworth in Empire Records (1995)
    Empire Records
    • (directed by)
  • Penelope Ann Miller in The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag (1992)
    The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag
  • Christian Slater in Pump Up the Volume (1990)
    Pump Up the Volume
  • Times Square (1980)
    Times Square
    • (as Alan Moyle)
  • The Rubber Gun (1977)
    The Rubber Gun

Actor

  • Energy and How to Get It
  • Squeeze Play (1979)
    Squeeze Play
  • Outrageous! (1977)
    Outrageous!
  • The Rubber Gun (1977)
    The Rubber Gun
  • Terry Schonblum in Rabid (1977)
    Rabid
  • East End Hustle (1976)
    East End Hustle
    • (as Allan Bozo Moyle)
  • The Mourning Suit (1975)
    The Mourning Suit
  • Montreal Main (1974)
    Montreal Main
    • (as Allan Bozo Moyle)

Writer

  • Love Crimes (1992)
    Love Crimes
  • Red Blooded American Girl (1990)
    Red Blooded American Girl
  • Christian Slater in Pump Up the Volume (1990)
    Pump Up the Volume
  • Times Square (1980)
    Times Square
    • (as Alan Moyle)
  • The Rubber Gun (1977)
    The Rubber Gun
  • East End Hustle (1976)
    East End Hustle
    • (as Allan Bozo Moyle)
  • Montreal Main (1974)
    Montreal Main
    • (as Allan Bozo Moyle)

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    • 1947
    • Shawinigan, Québec, Canada
    • Dianna Miranda(divorced)

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    Wrote an unpublished novel in the 80s that became the basis for his screenplay of the movie Pump Up the Volume (1990).

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