When the coming-of-age dramedy — starring Sean Penn and Jennifer Jason Leigh — premiered in 1982, it was more than just 'a cool buzz' Emily Krauser is a contributing writer at PEOPLE. She has been at ...

Before Amy Heckerling introduced audiences to privileged Beverly Hills teens in Clueless, she made her feature directorial debut with a film about high schoolers living in the San Fernando Valley ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. During an interview on It Happened in Hollywood, Heckerling claimed the film got "no advertising" before its release, meaning most ...

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 ...

Reading an excerpt from his new memoir, 'The Uncool,' the writer-director says Universal admitted it 'fucked up' the release of the film, which nonetheless kicked off the '80s teen-movie craze. By ...

It has been more than four decades since "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" was released, and the movie that perfectly captured teenage angst and the essence of '80s youth culture was the breakout moment ...

Alongside the collaboration, Buffer is offering its own originals in the same drop. Those include a T-shirt drawing on 1990s street culture and a long-sleeve T-shirt that reconstructs the brand’s main ...

Flashback to 1982, and Fast Times at Ridgemont High was the kind of success studios dreamed of having. Made for only five million, it made close to six times its budget back and would have done better ...

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.