Talk about a classic comedy. If you haven’t had the pleasure of seeing this masterpiece written by Cameron Crowe (one of my personal favorites) and directed by Amy Heckerling, then you are truly missing out.
This 1982 classic comedy is about all the teen favorites – love, sex, drugs, and rock and roll.
I feel like this movie is easily relatable, even in modern day.
We can all relate to that clown in class, the one that’s probably a stoner, an easy going guy but a real ball buster with the teachers. We all know one (or are one) and Sean Penn is the epitome of stoner. Jeff Spicoli. Every one’s favorite character in Fast Times.
We can all relate to another one of our many main characters, Stacy Hamilton (played by Jennifer Leigh) she is an average sophomore, pretty but timid, she’s less experienced than her best friend, Linda Barret (Pheobe Cates), and Stacy is anxious to lose her virginity. She desires to be a desirable girl.
Then we have the beautiful Linda Barret, you know, the popular pretty girl in school, the one that seems to get all the boys. Yeah, that bitch, that’s her. She is the goddess in the infamous pool scene where Stacy’s brother, Brad (Judge Reinhold) is caught doing something, um, indecent as he fantasizes about Linda.
On the other hand, the equal male counterparts to Stacy and Linda are Mark Ratner (Brian Backer) and his older, more experienced friend Mike Damone (Robert Romanus). Mark is similar to Stacy, very average, not as good looking as Stacy is, shy, and not very good with the ladies. His love interest becomes Stacy in the film, and I’ll let you watch and find out how that ends up.
Mr. Hand, played by Ray Walston is your classic strict, uptight, not fun, straight edge history teacher. Mr. Hand and Spicoli have a lot of comical and interesting encounters.
The movie depicts a very realistic coming-of-age comedy with relatable but dramatic characters.
Many more characters come into this film and intertwine in the high school of Ridgemont High.
If you haven’t seen Fast Times, you’re really missing out.
So go watch, laugh, and enjoy this great film
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