Fast times at Ridgemont High / a Refugee Films production ; screenplay by Cameron Crowe ; produced by Art Linson, Irving Azoff ; directed by Amy Heckerling.
Edition:
Director approved Blu-ray special edition.
Publisher:
The Criterion Collection,
Copyright Date:
2021
Description:
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (20 pages : color illustrations ; 17 cm)
Fast times at Ridgemont High (Motion picture) Fast times at Ridgemont High (Motion picture): TV version.
Notes:
Title from screen credits. Originally released as a motion picture in 1982. Based on the book by Cameron Crowe. Wide screen (1.85:1 aspect ratio). Features: New, restored 4K digital transfer, supervised by director Amy Heckerling; Audio commentary from 1999 featuring Heckerling and screenwriter Cameron Crowe; Edited and dubbed television version of the film from the eighties, featuring deleted and alternate scenes (95 min.); New conversation with Heckerling and Crowe, moderated by filmmaker Olivia Wilde; Reliving Our "Fast Times at Ridgemont High," a 1999 documentary featuring interviews with cast and crew; Audio discussion from 1982 with Heckerling at the American Film Institute; on insert, an essay by film critic Dana Stevens. Sean Penn, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Judge Reinhold, Phoebe Cates, Brian Backer, Robert Romanus, Ray Walston, Forest Whitaker, Anthony Edwards, Eric Stoltz, Nicolas Coppola.
Summary:
"The wild world of adolescence has rarely been captured with as sharp an observational eye as in this refreshingly smart, frank spin on the teen comedy by director Amy Heckerling and screenwriter Cameron Crowe--for each of whom it kicked off a hugely successful film career. Based on Crowe's experiences going undercover as a student at a southern California high school, Fast Times at Ridgemont High blends hormone-fueled hilarity with an almost sociological examination of the 1980s teenage experience: the shopping mall hangouts, fast-food jobs, buzzkill teachers, awkward dates, and first experiences of love and sex. This pop-culture touchstone launched to stardom practically an entire cast of unknowns--including Jennifer Jason Leigh, Phoebe Cates, Judge Reinhold, Forest Whitaker, Anthony Edwards, Eric Stoltz, and Sean Penn as stoner icon Jeff Spicoli--and broke new ground in its raw yet sensitive depiction of the realities of coming of age"--Container.
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