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Ultimate Party Collection Widescreen Special Edition
Dazed and Confused/Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Actors: Sean Penn, Jason London, Wiley Wiggins, Matthew McConaughey, Rory Cochrane
Directors: Amy Heckerling, Richard Linklater
Genres: Action & Adventure, Indie & Art House, Comedy, Drama

R 2004 3hr 13min

A remastered set with new 5.1 Dolby Surround audio, commentary tracks, new documentaries and deleted scenes. — Fast Times at Ridgemont High — Before he became an overrated filmmaker, Cameron Crowe (Almost Famous) was a repor... more »ter for Rolling Stone who was so youthful looking that he could go undercover for a year at a California high school and write a book about it. He wrote the script for this film, based on that book, and it launched the careers of several young actors, including Jennifer Jason Leigh, Judge Reinhold, Phoebe Cates, and, above all, Sean Penn. The story line is episodic, dealing with the lives of iconic teen types: one of the school's cool kids, a nerd, a teen queen, and, most enjoyably, the class stoner (Penn), who finds himself at odds with a strict history teacher (a wonderfully spiky Ray Walston). This is not a great movie but very entertaining and, for a certain age group, a seminal movie experience. --Marshall Fine Dazed & Confused

You remember high school? Really remember? If you think you do, watch this film: it'll all really come racing back. After changing the world with the generation-defining Slacker, director Richard Linklater turned his free-range vérité sensibility on the 1970s. As before, his all-seeing camera meanders across a landscape studded with goofy pop culture references and poignant glimpses of human nature. Only this time around, he's spreading a thick layer of nostalgia over the lens (and across the soundtrack). It's as if Fast Times at Ridgemont High was directed by Jean-Luc Godard. The story deals with a group of friends on the last day of high school, 1976. Good-natured football star Randall "Pink" Floyd navigates effortlessly between the warring worlds of jocks, stoners, wannabes, and rockers with girlfriend and new-freshman buddy in tow. Surprisingly, it's not a coming-of-age movie, but a film that dares ask the eternal, overwhelming, adolescent question, "What happens next?" It's a little too honest to be a light comedy (representative quote: "If I ever say these were the best years of my life, remind me to kill myself."). But it's also way too much fun (remember souped-up Corvettes and bicentennial madness?) to be just another existential-essay-on-celluloid. --Grant Balfour

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Actors: Sean Penn, Jason London, Wiley Wiggins, Matthew McConaughey, Rory Cochrane
Directors: Amy Heckerling, Richard Linklater
Creators: Anne Walker-McBay, Art Linson, C.O. Erickson, Irving Azoff, Cameron Crowe
Genres: Action & Adventure, Indie & Art House, Comedy, Drama
Sub-Genres: Nicolas Cage, Indie & Art House, Romantic Comedies, Love & Romance
Studio: Universal Studios
Format: DVD - Color,Widescreen - Dubbed,Subtitled
DVD Release Date: 11/02/2004
Original Release Date: 08/13/1982
Theatrical Release Date: 08/13/1982
Release Year: 2004
Run Time: 3hr 13min
Screens: Color,Widescreen
Number of Discs: 2
SwapaDVD Credits: 2
Total Copies: 0
Members Wishing: 0
Edition: Special Edition
MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Languages: English
Subtitles: Spanish, French

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Member Movie Reviews

K. K. (GAMER)
Reviewed on 1/1/2022...

Fast Times at Ridgemont High - Cult classic old school masterpiece with Sean Penn, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Judge Reinhold, Robert Romanus, Brian Backer, Phoebe Cates, Ray Walston, Forest Whitaker, Nicolas Cage, Anthony Edwards, Lana Clarkson and others shine in this. Many of the all-star cast of characters are young and at the beginning of their careers! A must watch!

Dazed and Confused - Alright, Alright, Alright, some common unnecessary things like the paddle scenes but the rest was alot of fun!

Movie Reviews

High-water marks for teensploitation/stoner comedy

Brent A. Anthonisen | Alpharetta, GA, USA | 01/01/2005

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This two-pack is an amazing pairing of like-minded high school comedies that are also suitable contrasts in that "Fast Times..." was generally a contemporary "classic" defining of its time (the frosted-blonde locks and Vans sneakers found their way IMMEDIATELY even to my burg of an Atlanta suburb high school in Lilburn, GA and fostered a class of Spickoli wanna-bes), whereas "Dazed..." was essentially a nostalgia piece, a throwback film designed to recall another time entirely.

Both films do as fine a job of depicting the reality of high school life as being equally dismal and comic, categorizing the cliques that were more specifically targeted in the John Hughes films of the 1980's as being less than specific sub-groups than being variations of the same theme; we're all somewhere between childhood and adulthood, and we're all equally screwed.

Both films are also similar in that they highlight the performances of actors who would eventually become well-established within the industry (even going so far as to win an Academy Award in Sean Penn's case) in the early stages of their careers; Sean Penn and Jenifer Jason Leigh in "Fast Times..." and Ben Affleck and Matthew McConaughey in "Dazed...", to say nothing of the actors in smaller roles (Nicolas Cage and Anthony Edwards in "Fast Times..." and Parker Posey Milla Jovovich in "Dazed...", just to name a few).

As a suburbanite old enough to remember both eras covered in these two films (I could've been anyone's little brother in "Dazed..." and could've passed for Mark Rattner in "Fast Times..."), I can heartily vouch for the authenticity of both movies as well as the competance with which both screenplays were written. The performances of all the actors as well as terrific soundtrack scoring in both films make this two-pack a no-brainer; both films are absolutely worth their price and should find themselves in the collection of anyone who thinks that the "American Pie" series is the perfect representation of young adult life in America. Both of these movies showed it first and portrayed it better."