
Follows a group of high school students growing up in southern California, based on the real-life adventures chronicled by Cameron Crowe. Stacy Hamilton and Mark Ratner are looking for a love interest, and are helped along by their older classmates, Linda Barrett and Mike Damone, respectively. The center of the film is held by Jeff Spicoli, a perpetually stoned surfer dude who faces off with the resolute Mr. Hand, who is convinced that everyone is on dope.... (Full plot summary below)
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Follows a group of high school students growing up in southern California, based on the real-life adventures chronicled by Cameron Crowe. Stacy Hamilton and Mark Ratner are looking for a love interest, and are helped along by their older classmates, Linda Barrett and Mike Damone, respectively. The center of the film is held by Jeff Spicoli, a perpetually stoned surfer dude who faces off with the resolute Mr. Hand, who is convinced that everyone is on dope.
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| New Times (L.A.)Luke Y. ThompsonPerfectly capturing the zeitgeist of American high school life in the '80s, complete with a Rubik's cube reference, the funny and occasionally harsh Fast Times, with all due apologies to John Hughes and Mickey Rooney, may be the greatest teen movie ever made (even though Cates was the only real teen). |
| Arizona Daily StarPhil VillarrealThe comedy captured the brutal realism of post-sexual-revolution high school life and has been imitated often, rarely equaled, and surpassed only once. |
| Montreal Film JournalKevin N. LaforestIt's among the coolest high school films I've ever seen, and it's one of the most representative movies of the 80s. |
| MovieCrypt.comKevin A. RansonSean Penn's calling never left Mr. Hand's classroom. |
| Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenAmy Heckerlings portrait of high school/shopping mall life in Southern California is still just about as good as it gets...The panoply of teen types and turmoils is dead-on accurate. |
| IGN DVDR. L. ShafferFast Times is a brilliant, funny and often challenging examination of teenage life in the early 1980s. |
| IGN DVDR.L. ShafferFast Times is a brilliant, funny and often challenging examination of teenage life in the early 1980s. |
| The A.V. ClubKeith PhippsA Trojan horse of a teen comedy that balanced lowbrow gags with subtle humor, genuine insightCrowe spent a year undercover as a high-school studentand pathos. |
| Empire MagazineMark DinningWhat plot there is garnishes itself with an array of such like-minded sensibilities that you'd be hard pushed to find much in the way of fault. |
| The A.V. ClubTasha RobinsonCompare any of this to the grinding series of vicious gags from, say, pretty much any Ben Stiller movie post-Flirting With Disaster, and Fast Times starts looking like a tame jokefest even grandma can enjoy. There's no crotch damage, no humorously dead animals, no pie-fucking, and no menstrual-blood-on-the-pants jokes, either. At its most graphic, it's got a little good-natured pot humor...It's just pure, lighthearted, relatively respectful fun. With boobs. |