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Overview
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Release Date:
13 August 1982 (USA)
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Tagline:
Fast Cars, Fast Girls, Fast Carrots...Fast Carrots? more
Plot:
A story of a group of California teenagers who enjoy malls, sex and rock n' roll. full summary | add synopsis
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California
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Surfer Dude
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Sex
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Rock 'n' Roll
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High School
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Awards:
1 win
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1 nomination
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NewsDesk:
(41 articles)
Nicolas Cage: The Hollywood Interview
(From The Hollywood Interview. 19 November 2009, 11:43 PM, PST)
Pfeiffer Up for Heckerling's Vamps ?
(From shocktillyoudrop. 17 November 2009)
(From The Hollywood Interview. 19 November 2009, 11:43 PM, PST)
Pfeiffer Up for Heckerling's Vamps ?
(From shocktillyoudrop. 17 November 2009)
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Awesome! Totally awesome! All right, Hamilton!
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Cast
(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 | |
| Blair Tefkin | ... | Pat Bernardo (as Blair Ashleigh) |
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Also Known As:
Fast Times (Australia) (poster title) (International: English title) (informal short title)
Fast Times at Ridgemont High (UK) (video title)
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Fast Times at Ridgemont High (UK) (video title)
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90 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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1.85 : 1 more
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Canada:R (Manitoba/Nova Scotia/Ontario) |
New Zealand:R18 |
Portugal:M/16 |
Australia:M (re-rating) (uncut) |
Australia:R (original rating) (cut) |
USA:R (edited for re-rating) |
Canada:18+ (Quebec) (original rating) |
Argentina:13 |
Canada:13+ (Quebec) |
Finland:K-12 |
Ireland:18 |
Norway:16 |
Singapore:M18 |
Sweden:11 |
UK:18 |
West Germany:12 |
USA:X (original rating)
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Near the beginning of the movie, right after Mr. Hand sends Spicoli to the front office for being late to class, Mr. Hand passes out the class schedule of quizzes. After the paper is passed out, the students put the page up to their noses and deeply inhale. This was a popular school ritual of the '60s, '70s and early '80s as photocopying machines were very expensive, so spirit duplicators were used. The spirit duplicators used a colored wax as the "ink" and a noxious solvent as a transfer agent to impress the ink on the paper. These solvents sometimes took a long time to dry, hence the students' use of these solvents as a short-term "high".
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Continuity: When Stacy is waiting by the curb for Damone to pick her up, Brad's car is clearly not in the driveway. However, when Stacy hears Brad's car start she runs outside to catch a ride with him and his car is just backing out of the driveway like it had always been there.
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Quotes:
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Perry's Pizza Waitress: Linda, Linda, there he is. There's that guy from the stereo store. Don't you think he looks like Richard Gere?
Linda Barrett: Did you see his cute little butt?
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Perry's Pizza Waitress: Linda, Linda, there he is. There's that guy from the stereo store. Don't you think he looks like Richard Gere?
Linda Barrett: Did you see his cute little butt?
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Kashmir
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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.