FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH - BLU-CRITERION COLLECTION

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• Release Year: 1982
• Genre: Comedy, Drama
• Plot: The wild world of adolescense has rarely been captured with as sharp an observational eye as in this refreshingly smart, frank spin on the teen comedy by director Amy Heckerling and screenwriter Cameron Crowe - for each of whom it kicked off a hugely successful film career. Based on Crowe's experiences going undercover as a student at a Southern California high school, Fast Times at Ridgemont High blends hormone-fueled hilarity with an almost sociological examination of the 1980s teenage experience: the shopping mall hangouts, fast-food jobs, buzzkill teachers, awkward dates, and first experiences of love and sex. This pop-culture touchstone launched to stardom practically an entire cast of unknowns - including Jennifer Jason Leigh, Phoebe Cates, Judge Reinhold, Forest Whitaker, Anthony Edwards, Eric Stoltz, and Sean Penn as stoner icon Jeff Spicoli - and broke new ground in its raw yet sensative depiction of the realities of coming of age.
• Cast: Sean Penn, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Judge Reinhold, Robert Romanus, Brian Backer, Phoebe Cates, Ray Walston, Scott Thomson, Vincent Schiavelli, Amanda Wyss, D.W. Brown, Forest Whitaker, Kelli Maroney, Tom Nolan, Blair Tefkin, Eric Stoltz, Stanley Davis Jr., James Russo, James Bolt, Nicolas Cage, Reginald Farmer, Anthony Edwards, Pamela Springsteen, Stuart Cornfeld, Sonny Carl Davis, Michael Wyle, David Price, Patrick Brennan, Julie Guilmette, Shelly O'Neill, Stu Nahan, Duane Tucker, Martin Brest, Douglas Brian Martin, Steven M. Martin, Taylor Negron, Kenny Lawrence, John Hollander, Ricky Redlich, Nancy Wilson, David Resnik, Erick Leroy Burdette, David Doolittle, Tom B. Bralley, Reeves Nevo, Virginia Peters, Laurie Hendricks, Lois Brandt, Ellen Fenwick, Cherie Effron, Suzanne Marie Fava, Lana Clarkson, Roy Homer Wallack, Ava Lazar, Lori Sutton, April Audia, Jason Bernard, Katherine Hittelman, Garyk Lee, Andrea Pope, Andrew Rayden, Amy Sawaya, Cindra Skotzko, Hallie Todd, Amy Heckerling, Cameron Crowe
• Director: Amy Heckerling
• Runtime: 1:29
• Company: The Criterion Collection, Universal Pictures, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
• Media Format: Movie