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Fast Times At Ridgemont High 92 minutes, USA (1982), 18
Average user rating (4.1 / 16 votes)

Quaint early excursion into the high school genre written by Cameron Crowe and directed by Amy Hecklering. Stars young Sean Penn and Jennifer Jason Leigh

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Fast Times At Ridgemont High: Based on an investigative book by then journalist Cameron Crowe, this film features the usual assortment of high school kids thinking about little other than how, with whom, when and where to get laid.

As such it is highly successful, but early performances from Penn (as a perpetually high surfer dude) and Leigh apart, this has little but anthropological value for anyone over 17...
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