Thomas Butt is a senior writer. An avid film connoisseur, Thomas actively logs his film consumption on Letterboxd and vows to connect with many more cinephiles through the platform. He is immensely ...

A property featured in the popular 1982 movie “Fast Times at Ridgemont High” is on the market. The Los Angeles, Calif., home in the residential San Fernando Valley neighborhood hasn’t been on the ...

Beginning in the fall of 1979, a 22-year-old Cameron Crowe, who at the time already had several years of experience writing for Rolling Stone and Creem, spent a school year undercover at Clairemont ...

Grace Neave is a TV & Movies Feature Writer for Collider. She’s an avid fan of horror, fantasy, coming of age, and cheesy teen flicks. Utterly obsessed with the 80s, you can usually find her watching ...

Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982) is a quotable cult classic American coming-of-age comedy film. The film captured the cultural zeitgeist of the time with realistic portrayals of American youth as ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Universal Pictures had no faith in "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" when they held their nose and dumped it into theaters at the end of the 1982 ...

The movie that launched the careers of Sean Penn, Phoebe Cates, Forest Whitaker and others didn’t get a big rollout from Universal because of its racy scenes, but critics and audiences cemented its ...

Fast Times at Ridgemont High helped redefine the coming-of-age movie. The teen comedy, which premiered 43 years ago on Aug. 13, 1982, follows a group of high school students navigating the ups and ...

Released on Aug. 13, 1982, Fast Times at Ridgemont High featured a cast comprising almost entirely unknown young actors portraying the film’s high school-age characters. Still, for all the what-ifs in ...

Fast Times at Ridgemont High helped redefine the coming-of-age movie. Earlier that same year, Penn recalled landing his breakout role as Spicoli, telling Jimmy Fallon that the audition went "terribly.