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Title: Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Sean Penn | ... | Jeff Spicoli | |
| Jennifer Jason Leigh | ... | Stacy Hamilton | |
| Judge Reinhold | ... | Brad Hamilton | |
| Robert Romanus | ... | Mike Damone | |
| Brian Backer | ... | Mark 'Rat' Ratner | |
| Phoebe Cates | ... | Linda Barrett | |
| Ray Walston | ... | Mr. Hand | |
| Scott Thomson | ... | Arnold | |
| Vincent Schiavelli | ... | Mr. Vargas | |
| Amanda Wyss | ... | Lisa | |
| D.W. Brown | ... | Ron Johnson | |
| Forest Whitaker | ... | Charles Jefferson | |
| Kelli Maroney | ... | Cindy | |
| Tom Nolan | ... | Dennis Taylor | |
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Blair Tefkin | ... | Pat Bernardo (as Blair Ashleigh) |
Follows a group of high school students growing up in southern California, based on the real-life adventures chronicled by Cameron Crowe. Stacy Hamilton and Mark Ratner are looking for a love interest, and are helped along by their older classmates, Linda Barrett and Mike Damone, respectively. The center of the film is held by Jeff Spicoli, a perpetually stoned surfer dude who faces off with the resolute Mr. Hand, who is convinced that everyone is on dope. Written by Rick Gregory <rag.apa@email.apa.org>
Fast Times at Ridgemont High is a quality film. It's over 20 years old and has become one of those iconic teen movies and it's pretty easy to see why. It has everything you would expect; the bad hair, the bad clothes, the bad music, teenage awkwardness...all the clichés and stereotypes that we've seen repeated in basically every teen movie since then. And it has Sean Penn playing a stoner surfer. Sean. Penn. I'm pretty sure this movie is funnier now just because Sean Penn has had a successful career as a proper dramatic actor, and he plays the ultimate surfer dude perfectly. The grudge between himself and Mr Hand (Ray Walston) is great and probably produces the best (or at least funniest) moments of the film.
All in all, Fast Times is fun. It might be because it's dated, cheesy, and clichéd, but it still does the job and it is entertaining.