If you saw Fast Times at Ridgemont High in 1982, you remember Stacy Hamilton. She was the sweet, hopeful teenager just trying to figure out love — played by a 20-year-old Jennifer Jason Leigh with ...

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 ...