Before Amy Heckerling introduced audiences to privileged Beverly Hills teens in Clueless, she made her feature directorial debut with a film about high schoolers living in the San Fernando Valley ...

Phoebe Cates was a teen magazine cover girl at 15 and one of the best-known faces of ‘80s movies.

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.

Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982) is a quotable cult classic American coming-of-age comedy film. The film captured the cultural zeitgeist of the time with realistic portrayals of American youth as ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. During an interview on It Happened in Hollywood, Heckerling claimed the film got "no advertising" before its release, meaning most ...

Based on the real-life adventures chronicled by Cameron Crowe, Fast Times follows a group of high school students growing up in Southern California. Stacy Hamilton and Mark Ratner are looking for love ...

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 ...

A look at the lives and loves of a group of high- school students. In his final year of high school, Brad Hamilton decides that he should break up with his long-time girlfriend to play the field, but ...

No brunette beauty better represents the ’80s than Phoebe Cates. Whether she’s climbing out of a swimming pool in slow motion, donning a red bikini to the sounds of “Moving in Stereo” by The Cars, or ...