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Fast
Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
    
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Director:
Amy Heckerling |
COUNTRY
USA |
GENRE
Comedy/Drama |
NORWEGIAN
TITLE
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RUNNING
TIME
90
minutes |
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Producer:
Irving Azoff
Art Linson |
Screenwriter
(based on his novel):
Cameron Crowe |
Review
It is hard for me to be completely
objective when revisiting the beautiful stylistic mess that was 1980s, like this
film allows us to do. Amy Heckerling directs with ungracious vividness
and creates a relentlessly funny and completely unsophisticated film
from Cameron Crowe's bubbly script. It captures quite a bit about what
being a youngster in the early eighties was about, and even if it does
so in a somewhat plain manner, the film cares about its characters and
the environment it depicts. Still, in retrospect, the main treat here is
the undeniably charismatic assembly of young up-and-coming performers.
From Jennifer Jason Leigh's cutely reserved Stacy to Sean Penn's
hilarious, over-the-top Spicoli. Great fun.
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