Fast Times at Ridgemont High

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Unlike the high school hellcats twenty years before them, tossing globes out of classroom windows and firing on police officers (see High School Confidential), Foxes (1980), is a portrait of teenage torpor at the dawn of the Eighties. These jaded teens, led by Jodie Foster, would rather pop a ‘lude and put on a Boston LP.
Examining the loosely woven friendship between four high school girls in the San Fernando Valley, each with typical problems of her age – and therefore seemingly insurmountable – Foxes looks at how each personality type copes with life, sex and parents, all of whom are divorced and too busy trying to find themselves rather than guide their children through the rockiest period of their lives.
Released between two movies that became classics of the L.A. High School genre, Rock ‘n Roll High School (1979) and Fast Times at Ridgemont
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I've heard positive word on the 80s-set coming-of-age comedy Adventureland, but also that it has more in common with movies like Caddyshack and Fast Times At Ridgemont High than director Greg Mottola's last movie Superbad. This new poster for the movie would certainly have me believe otherwise, since it appears to have been run through the same retro imaging machine as the Superbad promotional material. The movie, opening April 3rd, stars Jesse Eisenberg as a college grad in the 80s forced...
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"Adventureland" reviewby Mike Digiorgio, Writer               Had Adventureland come out when I was still a teenager in the 80s, I would have thought this was a classic.  It has sex, loud music, parties and a story about young adults trying to make it in the real world.  But with my adult perspective, I can’t help but think Adventureland is bland and a little sad.  It’s like when you see a movie from your youth as an adult, and you want to share it with someone.  You pop it in and after an hour or so you realize:  “this isn’t as funny as I remembered it.”  One wonders if writer/director Greg Mottola looked back at his youth and thought:  “Man, those where great times.  I’ve got some funny stories to tell.”  But for those of us who weren’t there with him, they aren’t that funny.

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