This movie is almost a rite of passage for 18 and 19 year olds
I saw it when I was 19 in the late '90s based on someone's recommendation. Later I heard more and more kids telling me that they had also just seen it-- a lot of times this involved a random screening in a student union building.
Even to this day in my late thirties I hear mostly freshmen college kids talking about their first experience with it.
It's an interesting phenomenon-- to me anyway.