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Fast Times At Ridgemont High
A look at the lives and loves of a group of final year high school students when they are enjoying their most important subjects: sex, drugs and rock n';; roll.
11 November 1948, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
24 October 1954
15 July 1924, USA
7 January 1962, Los Angeles, California, USA
5 February 1962, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
5 April 1962, Long Beach, California, USA
17 May 1938, Chicago, Illinois, USA
19 July 1962, Santa Barbara, California, USA
16 July 1963, New York City, New York, USA
30 September 1961, Whittier, California, USA
24 November 1960, Manhattan Beach, California, USA
17 February 1948, New York City, New York, USA
6 March 1967, Joplin, Missouri, USA
4 April 1958, Key West, Florida, USA
17 August 1959, Rochester, New York, USA
1 August 1957, Glendale, California, USA
2 December 1914, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
8 August 1951, The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
23 June 1926, Los Angeles, California, USA
7 January 1964, Long Beach, California, USA
January 29, 2012
Fast Times is a brilliant, funny and often challenging examination of teenage life in the early 1980s.March 13, 2009
Director Amy Heckerling has failed to provide the raunch or poignancy that would interest young moviegoers, all of whom have seen American Graffiti and its 467 imitators. Ridgemont High? A nice place to visit, but who would want to transfer there?January 26, 2006
Lacks the frenzied energy which allowed Porky's to beat all competitors in its field.January 01, 2011
Teen movie is full of sex, drugs, and misbehavior.January 14, 2015
[VIDEO ESSAY] "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" is a remarkable outlier in the teen movie genre even if tone-deaf critics such as Roger Ebert panned the film upon its released in 1982.August 12, 2015
What it doesn't have is a clear point of view, something that would make it of more interest than leafing through a high school yearbook.June 10, 2008
Fast Times will always be remembered for one thing: showing respect for and insight into the members of its core audience, something that was as rare in the 1980s as it is today.September 05, 2013
I'll take something like The Breakfast Club or many of John Hughes films over Crowe's characters any day.August 07, 2007
Great fun if not quite the great teen pic some believe it to be.July 18, 2007
Was never all it was cracked up to be.March 21, 2010
A cult classic.July 18, 2007
The nice thing is that Crowe and director Amy Heckerling have provided something pleasant to observe in all of these characters though they really are sadly lacking in anything gripping.