Everyone knows that Fast Times at Ridgemont Highis one of the most formative films of the 1980s, writing the formula for the prolific genre of teen/high school sex comedies. Although Amy Heckerling's debut 1982 film spawned many crass and uninspiring comedies about sex-crazed young men lusting after unsuspecting adolescent girls, no amount of problematic films can take away from the greatness of Fast Times at Ridgemont High, which is far more nuanced and mature than its copycats, as it wisely subverts the expectations of a teen sex comedy by underlining the stark peaks and valleys of life as a free-spirited teenager in a decade of rampant consumerism and economic independence.
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