1982 · comedy · drama
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Directed by Amy Heckerling1h 30m1982
A group of Southern-California high school students ignore their studies in favor of indulging in their teenage distractions.
Our read: Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded comedy · drama entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, gentle comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- warm
- gentle
- intimate
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