Fast Times at Ridgemont High movie

A story of a group of California teenagers who enjoy malls, sex and rock n' roll.

Fast Times at Ridgemont High is a 1982 American coming-of-age teen-comedy film written by Cameron Crowe (adapted from a book he wrote) and directed by Amy Heckerling. The film follows a school year in the lives of freshman Stacy Hamilton (Jennifer Jason Leigh), freshman Mark Ratner (Brian Backer) and their respective friends Linda Barrett (Phoebe Cates) and Mike Damone (Robert Romanus) who believe themselves wise in the ways of romance and counsel their younger counterparts. The ensemble cast of characters also includes Jeff Spicoli (Sean Penn), a perpetually stoned surfer who faces off against uptight history teacher Mr. Hand (Ray Walston), who is convinced that all of his students smoke marijuana.

Stacys brother, Brad (Judge Reinhold), is a popular senior who works at a local burger joint.It includes early appearances by several actors who would later become stars, including Sean Penn, Eric Stoltz, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Nicolas Cage, Anthony Edwards, Forest Whitaker, and Judge Reinhold. Notably, three of the actors who appeared in the film - Cage, Penn, and Whitaker - would win an Academy Award for Best Actor later on in their careers.Crowe himself would soon become a celebrated Hollywood director and screenwriter, eventually winning an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for his movie Almost Famous.Several scenes have entered pop culture, the most famous of which is a fantasy sequence in which Cates exits a pool and removes her bright red bikini top in slow motion to the beat of The Cars "Moving in Stereo".PlotStacy Hamilton (Leigh) is a naïve high school freshman who works at a mall pizzeria with the more sexually experienced Linda Barrett (Cates). Mark Ratner (Backer) also works in the mall, as assistant to the assistant manager of the movie theater. His friend Mike Damone (Romanus) -- who also hangs out at the mall scalping rock concert tickets -- believes himself to be both worldly and wise in the ways of women. Stacys brother Brad (Reinhold) is a popular senior who saved enough from his long-time gig at All-American Burger to buy a blue 1960 Buick LeSabre. Fast Times at Ridgemont High at the Internet Movie Cars Database, IMDCB.org Partier Jeff Spicoli (Penn) hotboxes in a Volkswagen Microbus before the final bell rings for the start of a new school year.The sexually-curious Stacy initially hooks up with a much older home stereo saleman from an electronics retailer at the Mall.

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Fast Times at Ridgemont High Cast

• Amanda Wyss
• Blair Tefkin
• Brian Backer
• D.W. Brown
• Forest Whitaker
• Jennifer Jason Leigh
• Judge Reinhold
• Kelli Maroney
• Phoebe Cates
• Ray Walston
• Robert Romanus
• Scott Thomson
• Tom Nolan
• Vincent Schiavelli