A functioning, abandoned phone booth stands in the desert, and travelers have camped next to it for years in the hopes that it would ring. The lives of four people from Las Vegas are changed when they intersect at this mythical booth.

The wild world of adolescence has rarely been captured with as sharp an observational eye as in this frank spin on the teen comedy by director Amy Heckerling and screenwriter Cameron Crowe, launching hugely successful film careers for both.