Stacy Hamilton (Jennifer Jason Leigh) is a pretty, but inexperienced, teen interested in dating. Given advice by her uninhibited friend, Linda Barrett (Phoebe Cates), Stacy gets trapped in a love triangle with nice guy Mark Ratner (Brian Backer) and his more assured buddy Mike Damone (Robert Romanus). Meanwhile, Stacy’s classmate Jeff Spicoli (Sean Penn), who lives for surfing and being stoned, faces off against Mr. Hand (Ray Walston), a strict teacher who has no time for the slacker’s antics.–Rotten Tomatoes

Amy Hekerling (Clueless) helms this cult classic revolving around school life, sexual education, and dating. The pic is stolen by Sean Penn as the stoned surfer student Jeff Spicoli. It’s a goofy diverting teen film that has a background soundtrack by the Go-Go’s, Stevie Nicks, Jimmy Buffett, and Jackson Browne.—Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews

“A brilliant, funny and often challenging examination of teenage life in the early 1980s.”–IGN DVD