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''Fast Times at Ridgemont High'' is a 1982 American coming-of-age teen comedy film written by Cameron Crowe, adapted from his 1981 book of the same name. As a freelance writer for ''Rolling Stone'' magazine, Crowe went undercover at Clairemont High School in San Diego, California, and wrote about his experiences. The film was directed by Amy Heckerling (in her feature film directorial debut) and chronicles a school year in the lives of sophomores Stacy Hamilton (Jennifer Jason Leigh) and Mark Ratner (Brian Backer), and their respective older friends Linda Barrett (Phoebe Cates) and Mike Damone (Robert Romanus), both of whom believe themselves wiser in the ways of romance than their younger counterparts. The ensemble cast of characters form two subplots with Jeff Spicoli (Sean Penn), a carefree stoned surfer, facing off against uptight history teacher Mr. Hand (Ray Walston), and Stacy's brother, Brad (Judge Reinhold), a senior who works at a series of entry-level jobs in order to pay off his car, and who is pondering easing out of his relationship with his girlfriend, until she herself dumps him. In addition to Penn, Reinhold, Cates, and Leigh, the film marks early appearances by several actors who later became stars, including Nicolas Cage, then billing himself as Nicolas Coppola, Forest Whitaker, Eric Stoltz, and Anthony Edwards. Among the actors listed, Penn, Cage, and Whitaker would later on in their careers win the Academy Award for Best Actor, with Penn winning twice. In 2005, ''Fast Times at Ridgemont High'' was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". ==Plot== Brad Hamilton is a popular senior who is looking forward to his last year of school and almost has his 1960 Buick LeSabre paid off. He has a part-time job at a burger joint, All American Burger, where his girlfriend, Lisa, also works. This esteemed establishment has a strict policy of etiquette: "No Shirt, No Shoes, No Dice". He is pondering how to end his relationship with Lisa so he can play the field during his senior year. However, Brad is fired for losing his temper at an obnoxious customer; when he tries to tell Lisa how much he needs her, she says she is dumping him to see other guys. Brad quits his next job at Captain Hook Fish & Chips because of the humiliation of having to wear a pirate costume when delivering food. He gets a job at a convenience store, Mi-T-Mart, where he successfully thwarts an attempted robbery and is promoted to store manager. Brad's sister, Stacy Hamilton, is a 15-year-old sophomore and a virgin. She is worried that she is not attractive or experienced enough to even meet, let alone have a relationship with, a man. While working at the mall she meets Ron Johnson, a 26-year-old stereo salesman who asks her out, after she tells him she is 19. She sneaks out to meet him and they have sex in a dugout at a softball field. Though he sends her a bouquet of roses the next day, she never hears from him again. She reveals the loss of her virginity to her friend, popular and sexually experienced senior Linda, who assures her that it will hurt less as she does it more. Mike Damone, who earns money taking bets and scalping tickets, fancies himself a ladies' man. He lets his younger friend Mark Ratner in on his secrets for picking up girls. Mike coaxes Mark into asking Stacy out to dinner at an upscale restaurant. Stacy invites Mark into her bedroom after the date, but he quickly shies away and leaves when Stacy tries to initiate sex with him. Later, Damone goes to Stacy's house for a swim in the backyard pool, which leads to sex in the pool house with Stacy. When Stacy later informs Damone that she is pregnant, he agrees to pay half the cost of an abortion and to drive her to the clinic. But on the day of her appointment he ignores her, refusing to answer her calls. Desperate, Stacy asks Brad to drive her to a bowling alley, but after he drops her off, Brad sees her going to the abortion clinic across the street. He goes back and waits for her, and she makes him promise not to tell their parents. Word gets around school about Damone and Stacy, which leads to a confrontation between Damone and Mark in the boys' locker room. Jeff Spicoli is a surfer and habitual marijuana user who runs afoul of a strict history teacher, Mr. Hand, who is intolerant of Spicoli's disregard for his class. On the evening of the graduation dance, Hand shows up at Spicoli's house and informs him that since he has wasted eight hours of class time over the past year, Hand intends to make up for it that night. They proceed to have a one-on-one session that lasts until Hand is satisfied that Spicoli has understood the lesson. Spicoli wrecks Ridgemont football player Charles Jefferson's 1979 Chevrolet Camaro Z28 during a joyride with Jefferson's younger brother. Spicoli decides to park the car in front of the school with slurs painted on it supposedly written by Ridgemont's rival, Lincoln High. When Ridgemont plays Lincoln, Jefferson is so angry about his car that he thrashes several of Lincoln's players and wins the game for Ridgemont in a blowout. In addition to Mark and Stacy's continuing relationship and Brad's promotion to manager at the convenience store, fates of some of the other characters are revealed in an epilogue sequence: Spicoli saves Brooke Shields from drowning and then spends the reward money hiring Van Halen to play at his birthday party; Linda gets accepted to UC Riverside and moves in with her Abnormal Psychology professor; Damone gets arrested for scalping Ozzy Osbourne tickets; and Hand still believes everyone is on drugs. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Fast Times at Ridgemont High」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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