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A story of a group of california teenagers who enjoy malls sex and rock n roll. Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 05/22/2007 Starring: Sean Penn Eric Stoltz Run time: 90 minutes Rating: R

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Before he became an overrated filmmaker, Cameron Crowe (Jerry Maguire) was a reporter for Rolling Stone who was so youthful looking that he could go undercover for a year at a California high school and write a book about it. He wrote the script for this film, based on that book, and it launched the careers of several young actors, including Jennifer Jason Leigh, Judge Reinhold, Phoebe Cates, and, above all, Sean Penn. The story line is episodic, dealing with the lives of iconic teen types: one of the school's cool kids, a nerd, a teen queen, and, most enjoyably, the class stoner (Penn), who finds himself at odds with a strict history teacher (a wonderfully spiky Ray Walston). This is not a great movie but very entertaining and, for a certain age group, a seminal movie experience. --Marshall Fine

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Before he became an overrated filmmaker, Cameron Crowe (Jerry Maguire) was a reporter for Rolling Stone who was so youthful looking that he could go undercover for a year at a California high school and write a book about it. He wrote the script for this film, based on that book, and it launched the careers of several young actors, including Jennifer Jason Leigh, Judge Reinhold, Phoebe Cates, and, above all, Sean Penn. The story line is episodic, dealing with the lives of iconic teen types: one of the school's cool kids, a nerd, a teen queen, and, most enjoyably, the class stoner (Penn), who finds himself at odds with a strict history teacher (a wonderfully spiky Ray Walston). This is not a great movie but very entertaining and, for a certain age group, a seminal movie experience. --Marshall Fine

Rating : - Best High School Comedy I've Ever Seen
FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH is the best comical high school movie I've ever seen along with the fact that this DVD has some very interesting bonus features on it as well like showing scenes of "Fast Times At Ridgemont High" where they played a popular hit song in the 1980's like "She's Gonna Be Somebody's Baby Tonight" by Jackson Browne, "We Got The Beat" by The Go Go's, etc.

In addition to some of the interesting bonus features on this DVD, it showed the cast & crew of "Fast Times" like Sean Penn(Jeffrey Spiccolli), Judge Reinhold(Brad Hamilton), Phoebe Cates(Linda), Jennifer Jason-Leigh(Stacey), Bobby Romanus(Mike Damone), Brian Backer(Mark Ratner)etc.; talking about their experience with doing the movie and looking back on it when it was released back in the Summer of 1982.

This movie also had Nick Cage, Eric Stoltz, Tony Edwards, Forest Whittaker in it before they all became stars and got bigger roles with their acting careers.

"Fast Times At Ridgemont High" also shows you the typical bad habits, bad inluences, peer pressures, raunchy fantasies, growing pains, teens humpin around, T&A, etc. that most high school students experience at a typical high school in their teen years by showing lots of nudity and sex, especially when Stacey(Jennifer Jason-Leigh)gets laid twice and lies about her age when she does hubba hubba for the first time showing everything, but her coochie.

This movie also takes me all the way back to memory lane when Ronald Reagan was the president and we had all those budget cuts going on from the recession we had back in 1981-1982, especially when Mike Damone(Bobby Romanus) tells his buddy over the phone that he knows "Times Are Tight" right now, which just so happened to be true in real life when this movie was made and when it was released in the theatres, because of the economy being so bad back then at the time in real life.