I love Phoebe Cates she is so beautiful but Jennifer Jason Leigh is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay way hotter and I grew up on Phoebe Cates in this and Gremlins and Paradise and Private School and Drop Dead Fred and that's hard to say but it's true. JJL looks so good in FTaRH, like somebody's baby alright! OMG. I love Jennifer & Phoebe!!This is the best movie ever. To all the newer generation kids watching this for the first time, even though older movies aren't as consistently stimulating as newer ones evolved to be, kinda lully, Fast Times at Ridgemont High is all about sex and it is so, so sexually stimulating that I don't even remember what I was talking about...........something to do with like, you learning to love it as you grow older like I learned to love megahot Jennifer over supersweet Phoebe, or something. Phoebe AND Jennifer's pool scene is the hottest nude scene in movies forever thanks to Phoebe AND Jennifer...........but Phoebe's part is particularly exquisite ODL, ODL! I love Phoebe Cates & JJL.BEsT tEEnAge hIGh SHcoOL SeX CoMEDy EVER!!

This sits alongside other decidedly "classic" 80s comedies, like Caddyshack and Trading Places, that I just don't get. This is sporadically funny, but mostly it just feels like a collection of random vignettes whose final product is just a lesser version of so many better 80's teen comedies.

I am not reading any of the reviews (yet) until I compose this one. This is a teen movie, for sure, but I have been waiting to catch this one for a while, and finally caught it on TV here in Sydney. As far as teen flicks go - I liked it (otherwise I would not mention it): almost no inter-teen cruelty, no gratuitous nudity (almost), just - a kind treatment of the characters involved.

This movie revolves around several students at Ridgemont High School who all have their own individual issues they have to work out along the way. For example, "Brad Hamilton" (Judge Reinhold) works at All-American Burger and everybody considers him as a success--until her gets fired. "Mark 'Rat' Ratner" (Brian Backer) works at the theater in the mall and has a crush on a girl in his biology class named "Stacy Hamilton" (Jennifer Jason Leigh). Unfortunately, being shy and inexperienced, Rat turns to his best friend "Mike Damone" (Robert Romanus) who generously advises him but then proceeds to have sex with Stacy--and comes to regret it immediately afterwards. Also featured is a pothead named "Jeff Spicoli" (Sean Penn) who has a problem with his history teacher by the name of "Mr. Hand" (Ray Walston) Or to be more accurate, perhaps it's better to say that Mr. Hand has a problem with Jeff Spicoli. In any case, this was one of better "high school comedies" produced during the 80's and typifies this particular era in film quite well. Above average.