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Fast Times at Ridgemont High
1982
· Movie
· 90 min
B
MEANRANK
70/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #2257
- IMDb #1958
- Google retired #1635
- Rotten Tomatoes #1714
- Metacritic #1860
- Letterboxd #2319
+9 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #2205
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #1641
- Metacritic Critics #2376
- Metacritic Audience #1086
- Criticker #1364
- Douban #1892
- Kinopoisk #3620
- AlloCiné #3518
- Trakt #2123
Every rating
53–88
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 53, highest is Google on 88.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A year in the lives of several Southern California high school students is chronicled. The story follows a group of friends as they navigate work, love, and the challenges of adolescence. Their experiences include losing their virginity, dealing with unplanned pregnancy, and the daily antics of their perpetually stoned classmate.
Details
- Director
- Amy Heckerling
- Writer
- Cameron Crowe
- Based on
- a work by Cameron Crowe
- Studio
- Refugee Films, Universal Pictures
- Released
- 13 August 1982
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 90 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $4.5M
- Box office
- $27.1M
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Awards
2 wins & 1 nomination total
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