Fast Times at Ridgemont High (Widescreen Special Edition)
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Fast Times at Ridgemont High (Widescreen Special Edition) Feature
- ISBN13: 9781417011001
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Genre: Feature Film-Comedy
Rating: R
Release Date: 23-AUG-2005
Media Type: DVD
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Fast Times at Ridgemont High (Widescreen Special Edition) Specifications
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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This film is about (mostly) middle class high schoolers during the opening years of the 1980s. The Sixties are over. Generation X has yet to define itself to an America that has begun its post-boom economic decline. Aids is not yet in the popular lexicon. (You get the picture).
The technical aspects include well crafted editing and brilliant acting by a young Sean Penn and many others, including Ray Walston of My Favorite Martian and Damn Yankees fame. In Ridgemont High he steps aside from his roles as, respectively, a martian in My Favorite Martian - The Complete First Season and the devil in Damn Yankees, to play a U.S. History teacher named Mr. Hand, that tries to get through to a group of young people whose minds are on their next date--or in the case of Penn's character, Spicoli, their next bong hit or pizza.
Spicoli appears to be out to lunch-- in the case of the pizza delivery to class, literally-- until he surprises the teacher one fine day with an astute--if not wholly coherent--paraphrase of America's most cherished and legendary history.
Fast Times is a heartwarming, coming of age film that encapsulates American youth at a fascinating time in history. Not to be missed!
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