What is All American High / Fast Times at Ridgemont High about?

Double Feature: ALL AMERICAN HIGH, 1987, 59 min. Director Keva Rosenfeld spent much of the 1984 school year roaming the halls of Torrance High with a camera to capture this fly-on-the-wall documentary. As narrator, Finnish exchange student Rikki Rauhala offers perspectives on such familiar teen rituals as proms and parties - and the occasionally frivolous approach to education here. FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH, 1982, 92 min. A raunchy and painfully funny look at Southern California high school students by director Amy Heckerling. Writer Cameron Crowe adapts his own semi-autobiographical book as an unexpected launching pad for three future Academy Award winners: Forest Whitaker, Nicolas Cage and Sean Penn (in a career-making turn as pothead surfer Jeff Spicoli).

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What is All American High / Fast Times at Ridgemont High about?: Double Feature: ALL AMERICAN HIGH, 1987, 59 min. Director Keva Rosenfeld spent much of the 1984 school year roaming the halls of Torrance High with a camera to capture this fly-on-the-wall documentary. As narrator, Finnish exchange student Rikki Rauhala offers perspectives on such familiar teen rituals as proms and parties - and the occasionally frivolous approach to education here. FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH, 1982, 92 min. A raunchy and painfully funny look at Southern California high school students by director Amy Heckerling. Writer Cameron Crowe adapts his own semi-autobiographical book as an unexpected launching pad for three future Academy Award winners: Forest Whitaker, Nicolas Cage and Sean Penn (in a career-making turn as pothead surfer Jeff Spicoli).