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While Fast Times at Ridgemont High features Sean Penn's legendary performance, the film endures because it accurately captured the small details of school, work, and teenage life. Read critic reviews
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Fast Times at Ridgemont High videos
Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982) Presented by TCM: Fathom Events Trailer
Fast Times at Ridgemont High: Official Clip - He's Gonna Kill Us!
Fast Times at Ridgemont High: Official Clip - Spicoli Orders a Pizza
Fast Times at Ridgemont High: Official Clip - Spicoli's Surfer Dream
Fast Times at Ridgemont High: Official Clip - Brad Gets Canned
Fast Times at Ridgemont High: Official Clip - Carrot Practice
Fast Times at Ridgemont High: Official Clip - No Shirt, No Shoes, No Dice
Fast Times at Ridgemont High: Official Clip - Mi-T Man
Fast Times at Ridgemont High: Official Clip - Spicoli Meets Mr. Hand
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Movie Info
Stacy Hamilton (Jennifer Jason Leigh) is a pretty, but inexperienced, teen interested in dating. Given advice by her uninhibited friend, Linda Barrett (Phoebe Cates), Stacy gets trapped in a love triangle with nice guy Mark Ratner (Brian Backer) and his more assured buddy Mike Damone (Robert Romanus). Meanwhile, Stacy's classmate Jeff Spicoli (Sean Penn), who lives for surfing and being stoned, faces off against Mr. Hand (Ray Walston), a strict teacher who has no time for the slacker's antics.
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Rating: R
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Genre: Comedy
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Original Language: English
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Director: Amy Heckerling
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Producer: Art Linson, Irving Azoff
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Writer: Cameron Crowe
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Release Date (Theaters): wide
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Runtime:
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Distributor: MCA, MCA/Universal Pictures [us], MCA/Universal Home Video
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Production Co: Universal Pictures, Refugee Films
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Critic Reviews for Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Audience Reviews for Fast Times at Ridgemont High
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A film that I grew up with and had seen thousands of times. It's an amazing look into teenage life during the nineteen-eighties. It has countless memorable scenes and is one of the most quotable films to date. While it is thoroughly entertaining and it does boast a huge all-star cast, it has this issue of not being able to fall into any one genre. The movie hits a ton of places on the emotional spectrum. However, it isn't too much. The movie finds a good balance and plays it really well.
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A slightly surreal but extremely appealing look into teenage life in early 1980s America which explores many of the era's teenage issues from sex to working to tediously long food lines and people serving fries before they're fully prepared. Many today could see this as an overtly "nostalgic" film, but if it is, it's a pretty damn good nostalgia flick.
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This flick is a little aged but the humour is still there. So many young stars all ready to meet their potential.
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Fast Times At Ridgemont High is an iconic '80s teen sex comedy with a stellar cast that includes Sean Penn, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Judge Reinhold, and Phoebe Cates. Written by Cameron Crowe, the film follows a group of teenagers as they deal with relationship, work, and school issues. Unfortunately, the script is rather weak and doesn't do a very good job at connecting the characters and the issues that they're struggling with. The film's tone is also problematic; as it wants to address the issues that teenagers struggle with, but gives them no weight. Too fast for its own good, Fast Times At Ridgemont High gets by mostly on the charisma of its cast.
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