Saturday 21 September 2013

Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982 Amy Heckerling)

Sean Penn, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Judge Reinhold, Phoebe Cates, Robert Romanus (ticket scalp), Brian Backer, Ray Walston, Forest Whitaker, Eric Stoltz.

Crudely made film of Cameron Crowe's first screenplay (I wonder how Rolling Stone reviewed it?) which winningly catches essential truths and behaviours of adolescents.

Jennifer Jason Leigh
Leigh has had a remarkably interesting career if you think of her screwball turn in Hudsucker Proxy against her list of 'difficult' films: Last Exit to Brooklyn, Synecdoche New York, Todd Solondz's Palindromes, In the Cut and The Machinist, mixed with more straighforward fare such as Road to Perdition and Single White Female and latterly on TV in Weeds and the unfortunately hammy Revenge.
Sean Penn

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