This summer marks 35 years since America met the students and faculty of Ridgemont High and fell in love with them, warts and all. Well actually, if you read screenwriter Cameron Crowe's 1981 book, ...

Fast Times at Ridgemont High is one of the most important teen films in cinema history, but at the time, executives were ...

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 ...

Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982) is rightfully considered a naughty classic of yesteryear, complete with a certain Phoebe Cates scene that had home viewers practically breaking the pause button on ...

Fast Times at Ridgemont High star Phoebe Cates forged a quiet - yet very successful - life outside of Hollywood while married to Oscar winner Kevin Kline. Cates got her big break at age 17 when she ...

The A.K. Smiley Public Library’s Southern California in Film series continues with a screening of the 1982 film “Fast Times at Ridgemont High” 2 p.m. Saturday, April 19, at the Contemporary Club, 173 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.