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Phoebe Cates was the youngest in the cast at 18, not counting Nicolas Cage (Coppola).
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Cameron Crowe wrote the screenplay based on his book. Cameron Crowe attended University of San Diego [...]
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Universal originally planned to only release the film in the Western part of the United States for a [...]
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The script caused a controversy because some actual first names of Clairemont High School students w [...]
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Sean Penn gave numerous takes for his "Oh, gnarly!" line at the organ removal scene using different [...]
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The World famous "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" VW Bus is now owned by Robert Skinner who operates S [...]
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Phoebe Cates and Judge Reinhold would later co-star in Gremlins (1984).
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During a July 2008 interview with the Orange County Register about Strafumati (2008), the interviewe [...]
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Most critics liked this movie when it came out; as of 2019, it has a 78% approval rating on Rotten T [...]
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Lana Clarkson appears as Mrs. Vargas. Winter Wonderland by Darlene Love appears in the film "courtes [...]
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Brad & Stacy's mother is the only parent shown. It's when Stacy goes to bed and sneaks out to see Ro [...]
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Jennifer Jason Leigh is actually a year old than Phoebe cates despite the fact that Stacy is 15 and [...]
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The book Arnold's holding while betting on the football game is "Childhood's End" by Arthur C. Clark [...]
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Andy Rathbone was the student Cameron Crowe based Mark "Rat" Ratner on. Rathbone was known as "the r [...]
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Justine Bateman was offered the role of Linda but declined. Instead, she preferred to star in the TV [...]
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Included among the American Film Institute's 1998 list of the 400 movies nominated for the Top 100 G [...]
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When Brad is washing the Cruising Vessel, you can see he has a Bruce Springsteen bumper sticker. Pam [...]
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Tom Hanks was considered for the role of Brad. Two years later he was cast to star in another popula [...]
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James Russo plays the stickup man who Brad, played by Judge Reinhold, thwarts at the end. Two years [...]
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Sean Penn asked Amy Heckerling for permission to drink a little something something before his scene [...]
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Todd Rundgren recorded the song, "Attitude", for the film at Cameron Crowe's request. It was not inc [...]
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Sean Penn almost missed out on the role of Jeff Spicoli because he initially refused to audition.
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This film has three actors who later won Oscars for Best Actor: Sean Penn (Spicoli), Forest Whitaker [...]
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In the original screenplay it is revealed that Mike Damone is a transfer student from South Philadel [...]
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This film is part of the Criterion Collection, spine #1,075.
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First-time director Amy Heckerling said she was seeking to make a comedy that was less structured th [...]
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Doug Benson appears briefly as an extra in the final mall scene.
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When Brad arrives at All American Burger, he throws the french fries into the garbage can and says " [...]
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Cameron Crowe's parents wanted to visit the set, and the only day that was available was when they w [...]
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Because of copyright issues, there are several incarnations (including VHS) that replaced Tom Petty' [...]
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Ranked at #2 on Entertainment Weekly's 50 Best High School Movies (2006)
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When showing Ratner his method of dating, Damone practices his routine on a cardboard cutout of Debb [...]
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Damone's car is a 1973 AMC Gremlin.
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Prior to the film's 19 August 1982 Los Angeles release, a news story reported that the 5 July 1982 M [...]
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Amanda Wyss, Taylor Negron, and Vincent Schiavelli all appear in Sapore di hamburger (1985).
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Some of the actors who had auditioned for roles were Ralph Macchio, Matthew Broderick, Meg Tilly, Mi [...]
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Included among the American Film Institute's 2000 list of the Top 100 Funniest American Movies.
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Ralph Macchio was asked for a role, but he demanded a salary the director couldn't afford.
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When the commentary was recorded in 1999 Cameron Crowe broke the news to Amy Heckerling that the She [...]
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Just before the ending credits we see a close up of an arcade video game screen that reads "The End" [...]
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Jennifer Jason Leigh didn't get pregnant till age 47 and gave birth at 48
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For his masturbation scene, Judge Reinhold brought a large dildo to work with, unbeknown to the rest [...]
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Lana Clarkson: as Mr. Vargas's wife in the high school dance scene. Clarkson was murdered by music p [...]
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Judge Reinhold was the boyfriend of Amy Heckerling's best friend, who was also doing casting. He got [...]
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The pretty girl in the corvette is played by Nancy Wilson, member of the rock band Heart. She was da [...]
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In a deleted scene that is often shown in TV broadcasts, Stacy tells Linda that Ron Johnson had call [...]
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Diane Lane auditioned for the role of Stacy.
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They had seriously considered Nicolas Cage for the role of Brad, but Heckerling felt he wasn't as go [...]
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Damone's line "If this girl can't smell your qualifications, then who needs her" is based on advice [...]
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When Mike Damone gives Rat his "five point plan" he says, "And five, now this is the most important, [...]
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Sean Penn extinguished a cigarette in the palm of his hand in order to better understand his charact [...]
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Filming lasted five weeks.
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Sean Penn is wearing a half-wig. "That's his Taps hair on the top and a wig on the bottom." Amy Heck [...]
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Although the real explanation for Ratner's failing to follow Damone's advice about playing side one [...]
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It was filmed at Van Nuys High School in Van Nuys, California
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Matthew Broderick turned down the role of Brad Hamilton when his father became terminally ill.
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Andy Rathbone was the student that Cameron Crowe based Mark "Rat" Ratner on. He became famous in his [...]
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For the dream sequence, where Spicoli is discussing his big win in the surfing contest, Sean Penn im [...]
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"I was trying to make sex seem scary and uncomfortable," says Amy Heckerling regarding her approach [...]
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Near the beginning of the movie, right after Mr. Hand sends Spicoli to the front office for being la [...]
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This was Forest Whitaker's first time auditioning for a film, and Amy Heckerling recalls seeing him [...]
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Across the street where the scene was filmed where Jeff Spicoli crashes the car, coincidentally, is [...]
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In the Mi-T-Mart scene, Brad is wearing a Bruce Springsteen T-shirt. Bruce's sister Pamela Springste [...]
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[10:25] On the first day of class, Mr. Hand says to Stacy Hamilton (Jennifer Jason Leigh), "You woul [...]
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Vans (shoes) were worn by Sean Penn's character, surfer Jeff Spicoli, and were featured on the cover [...]
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At 1hour 11 mins, director Martin Brest appears as a doctor. "He was my ex-boyfriend," says Amy Heck [...]
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Although Stacy's bedroom is the typical small size for a suburban home, she apparently has two doors [...]
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Sean Penn had to fly back to LA in between another job in Chicago. Because Cameron Crowe wrote the l [...]
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John Landis visited the set at the request of the studio who were concerned because they expected a [...]
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Nancy Wilson: wife of writer Cameron Crowe and Heart band member appears as the woman in the car bes [...]
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Ridgemont High scenes were filmed over eight days at Van Nuys High School in Van Nuys, CA. Although [...]
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Jennifer Jason Leigh actually got a temporary job at the pizza place where her character works befor [...]
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In the dugout scene, the words 'Disco Sucks' are seen in the background. This is a reference to Disc [...]
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One of the pinups shown predominantly on the wall of Spicoli's bedroom is Dorothy Stratton, who was [...]
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Amy Heckerling wanted to show male nudity, too, in a scene with Leigh and Robert Romanus, but "I was [...]
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There are several hints that Linda's "boyfriend", Doug, is fictional. Linda changes her story about [...]
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If you look closely at the magazine rack during the robbery of the convenience store scene, you'll n [...]
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Stacy works at Perry's Pizza. Jennifer Jason Leigh actually worked at Perry's Pizza for a month afte [...]
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The scene where Brad Hamilton is making a delivery while wearing a pirate costume was only ¼ mile [...]
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Rob Lowe wrote in his autobiography that he sought to audition for the film but was unable to get a [...]
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Cameron Crowe asks what she thought while watching dailies during production, and Amy Heckerling rev [...]
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Sean Penn improvised during his takes and tried to find ways to aggravate actor Ray Walston, who pla [...]
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Almost all of the actors who play students in this movie were not stars and virtually "nobodies" (un [...]
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The mall scenes were shot during the night from when the mall closed at 9:30 to when it opened at 9. [...]
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Amy Heckerling recalls that one of the film's producers wanted "Raised on the Radio" by the Ravyns a [...]
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David Lynch was originally offered the chance to direct before Amy Heckerling was chosen. He turned [...]
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Cameron Crowe thankEd Amy Heckerling for having the idea to center much of the film's action inside [...]
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Amy Heckerling, in the DVD audio commentary, states that the 1970s "classic rock" artists, like Eagl [...]
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When Stacy meets Ron Johnson at Perry's and he asks her how old she is, she tells him she's 19 - a l [...]
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Sean Penn asked out Pamela Springsteen, who played Dina the cheerleader, on the set of the movie; sh [...]
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The Damone/Stacy sex scene included a shot of Damone undressing that included full frontal male nudi [...]
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Martin Brest is seen as a doctor during the student field trip - he would direct Judge Reinhold in B [...]
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During the classroom test scene in science class, right after Pat Benatar lookalike Blair Tefkin is [...]
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The cabana sex scene between Stacy and Mike features full-frontal nudity on his part, and the studio [...]
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Stuart Cornfield went to film school with Amy Heckerling.
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Jennifer Jason Leigh nude on the sofa was named #14 on its Top 20 Gratuitous Nude Scenes of The 1980 [...]
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Lana Clarkson's film debut.
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Nicolas Cage's first paid role.
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Mr. Vargas was based on Clairemont High School biology teacher George L. Jones. Jones kept many anim [...]
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Jennifer Jason Leigh's father Vic Morrow died in a helicopter accident on the set of Ai confini dell [...]
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Brian Backer and Scott Thomson both appeared in Police Academy movies: Backer in Scuola di polizia 4 [...]
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Both of Jeff Spicoli's friends (Eric Stolz and Anthony Edwards) hail from Santa Barbara, California. [...]
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Jennifer Jason Leigh (Stacy Hamilton) and Taylor Negron (Pizza Guy) both appeared in Soldi facili (1 [...]
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Two of the actors from Spicoli's dream scene both appeared in Rocky films. Ava Lazar appeared in Roc [...]
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Cameron Crowe recalled Phoebe Cates asking him how the pool scene went, and he said people were sayi [...]
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Director Amy Heckerling has stated that she got Phoebe Cates to overcome her fear of doing the tople [...]
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The scene where Linda instructs Stacy how to give a blowjob originally took place in a hot tub with [...]
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Melanie Griffith and Tatum O'Neal were considered for the role of Linda.
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Universal didn't think the film would become a hit. In fact, the studio had thought about not releas [...]
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The role of Mr. Hand was originally offered to Fred Gwynne who turned it down due to his objections [...]
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In Cameron Crowe's high school followup (that's not a sequel), The Wild Life, Sean Penn's brother Ch [...]
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Brad's job, requiring him to wear a pirate costume (which he hates), may have inspired a series of c [...]
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Initially banned in Ireland and was only given an 18 rating when cuts were made. It's unknown what w [...]
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One of the posters on the wall in Damone's room is the cover of the Rolling Stones album cover Tatto [...]
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A short lived TV series Fast Times (1986) was spun off from this movie.
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Eric Stoltz auditioned for the role of Jeff.
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In the novel, Spicoli dreams he's singing "Highway to Hell" by AC/DC on The Tonight Show (1962), but [...]
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The film's "teenagers" only included two actual teens -- Phoebe Cates was nineteen, and Nicolas Cage [...]
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Universal wanted a "Spicoli Goes to College" follow-up almost immediately.
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Mike Damone's nude scene with Stacy that was filmed and never used was stated by director Amy Hecker [...]
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The alternative rock group Damone took its name from the character Mike Damone.
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The scene where Jeff Spicoli crashed the car was filmed only ½ mile from where Mike Johansen live [...]
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The school they go to is Van Nuys High School in Van Nuys, CA.
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Lois Brandt, who portrayed guidance counselor Mrs. O'Rourke, was shown in the end credits but she wa [...]
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The book Arnold is holding while talking to Brad about working at All-American Burger is "Childhoods [...]
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Nicolas Cage lied about his age so that he could get a bigger part, but the producers eventually fou [...]
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At the beginning, outside the movie theatre when Ratner is taking ticket stubs, Damone asks Ratner i [...]
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[44:08]About 8 seconds after Jeff Spicoli says to Jefferson's brother "people on ludes should not dr [...]
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Linda acts as somewhat of an older sister to Stacy. She gives her lots of advice and speaks of her e [...]
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Nicolas Cage appears under the name Nicolas Coppola for the first and only time until 2022's "The Un [...]
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Linda likes older men. Phoebe Cates would later marry Kevin Kline, who is 15 years older than she.
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Nicolas Cage was originally considered for the role of Brad Hamilton, but the studio thought his per [...]
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When Stacy and Ron Johnson end up going to "the point", the words "The Cinch" are spray-painted on t [...]
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An improvised scene at a record store where Damone tells Spicoli where to find some music was filmed [...]
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The book Arnold is reading while attending the pep rally is "The Catcher In The Rye" by J.D. Salinge [...]
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During shooting of the film, Sean Penn got so into character that he only answered as Spicoli. In fa [...]
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Nicolas Cage's film debut.
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Although Ron Johnson (stereo salesman) is portrayed as much older than Stacy, actor D.W. Brown is ac [...]
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Christopher Reeve was considered for the role of Jeff Spicoli.
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In the tradition of E.T. - L'extra-terrestre (1982) and Reese's Pieces, this movie product-placed an [...]
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Amy Heckerling wanted Fred Gwynne as Mr. Hand but the actor passed as the script featured "too much [...]
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The mascot of Ridgemont High is the wolf, which is the same mascot of Van Nuys High School, where mo [...]
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Both Brooke Shields and Ellen Barkin reportedly turned down an offer to play Stacy. At the end of th [...]
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Nicolas Cage's character is billed as Brad's Bud, but his character's actual name is Dave, given whe [...]
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Jodie Foster was considered to play Stacy, but was not interested in the role due to her commitment [...]
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Spicoli's dream where he wins a surfing award was originally meant to see him on The Tonight Show. J [...]
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According to Amy Heckerling, Phoebe Cates was initially reluctant to carry out her character's pools [...]
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The mall scenes were filmed at the Sherman Oaks Galleria. It was damaged by earthquake in 1994, but [...]
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When Ratner is getting dating advice from Damone in Damone's bedroom, Ratner is wearing a T-shirt fo [...]
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Kelli Maroney (blonde, shrieking cheerleader Cindy) also plays a cheerleader in "Night Of The Comet" [...]
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Hallie Todd (back when she was known as Hallie Eckstein) and Forest Whitaker actually attended high [...]
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Sean Penn was asked to read for the part of Brad Hamilton as well as that of Jeff Spicoli.
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Hallie Todd, back when she was known as Hallie Eckstein, had a bit part in the movie as a fellow mal [...]
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Ray Walston was, at the time, best known for his role as Uncle Martin on Il mio amico marziano (1963 [...]
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When Mike Damone is trying to sell tickets to a Cheap Trick concert, he sings a montage of three dif [...]
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Filming lasted a total of eight weeks, in various Los Angeles and San Fernando Valley, CA, locations [...]
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According to Amy Heckerling, Sean Penn and pals were actually smoking marijuana in the van as they e [...]
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The $20 that Mike Damone charges for the Van Halen tickets comes out to $56.23 in 2021, adjusted for [...]
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Stacy's notebook says Mike Damone Good Points- great trust, good looking (great body), knows music, [...]
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According to Brian Backer, Jennifer Jason Leigh and her family allowed him to stay at their house fo [...]
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When Mark Ratner discovers he forgot his wallet on his date with Stacy and phones Damone in a panic, [...]
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On Damone's list of people who owe him money, there's a Rick Shasta. In Cameron Crowe's book, one of [...]
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Was mentioned by Justice Brett Kavanaugh, along with Animal House and Caddyshack, while testifying i [...]
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Brad Hamilton works at two different restaurants, with each one having a view of a fried chicken loc [...]
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Included among the "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die", edited by Steven Schneider.
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Damone sells a pair of Van Halen tickets, when they had David Lee Roth as the lead singer (the origi [...]
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Spicoli's dream sequence was actually written and filmed after the film was wrapped. After beginning [...]
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Brad Hamilton's light-blue car is a 1960 Buick LeSabre.
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The scene where Brad is caught masturbating was later parodied at the end of the video for Fountains [...]
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According to producer Art Linson, at the first screening of the finished cut, then Universal Picture [...]
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Amy Heckerling was confused by the prospect of picking a car for Brad to drive, as being from the Br [...]
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Alternate, sanitized takes of several scenes were filmed for use on broadcast television.
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There are numerous references to rock bands throughout the film (shirts worn by characters, posters [...]
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Amanda Wyss, Vincent Schiavelli, and Taylor Negron would go on to appear together in Sapore di hambu [...]
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Jefferson's (Forest Whitaker) car is a 1979 Chevrolet Camaro Z28.
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