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Enzian is honored to welcome Judge Reinhold to the Florida Film Festival. Following the film screening, Mr. Reinhold will be present for a Q&A with the audience.
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Fast Times at Ridgemont High:
One of the most culturally significant films of the last 40 years is also the ultimate snapshot of sun-soaked adolescence, where cruising, crushes, and minimum-wage jobs collide in a haze of hormones and hard lessons. At the center is Brad Hamilton, played with pitch-perfect frustration by Judge Reinhold, whose slow unraveling from confident big brother to humiliated fast-food employee remains one of the film’s most relatable and quietly hilarious character arcs. And that doesn’t even address the film’s most iconic sequence which pits Reinhold’s expert comedic timing against male sexual fantasy gone awry. Directed by Amy Heckerling (Clueless) and written by Cameron Crowe (Almost Famous), the film follows a group of Southern California teens navigating sex, work, and identity. From Stacy’s (Jennifer Jason Leigh) awkward romantic awakenings to Linda Barrett’s (Phoebe Cates) poor life advice and Jeff Spicoli’s (Sean Penn) blissed-out slacker archetype, the film reshaped the conversation around teen sex comedies and launched more careers than any film since American Graffiti.
A defining teen classic, Fast Times reshaped the genre with its honesty, humor, and empathy—trading clichés for something messier and more real. Decades later, its influence echoes through every coming-of-age comedy that dares to tell the truth about the best worst years of our lives.
Judge Reinhold:
Judge Reinhold has been in over 75 motion picture and television roles and enjoys a 35-year relationship with an international audience of all ages. His films include Stripes, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Gremlins, Ruthless People, and Disney’s Christmas franchise, The Santa Clause 1,2,3. Beverly Hills Cop 1, 2, 3 play continually internationally, making Judge a familiar presence worldwide. Fast Times and Beverly Hills Cop were recently voted by the American Film Institute as two of the “Top 100 American Comedies.”
Judge received an Emmy nomination for his performance as “The Close Talker” on Seinfeld, and his guest-star appearances in Seinfeld and Arrested Development received two of the highest ratings on both series. Judge has been an active member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences since 1987.
Judge most recently co-starred with Eddie Murphy in the fourth installment of the Beverly Hills Cop franchise, which was Netflix’s most successful summer movie of 2024, released globally in 250 million homes.
“Judge Reinhold is a very affable actor, a charming combination of Jimmy Stewart of Donald Duck.” – Pauline Kael, New Yorker Magazine film critic
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1982, 92 minutes, USA, Directed by Amy Heckerling, Rated R
