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Slacker

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Original title

Slacker

Year

1990

Running time

97 min.

Country

United States

Director

Richard Linklater

Screenwriter

Richard Linklater

Cast

Cinematography

Lee Daniel

Producer

Detour Filmproduction, Orion Classics

Genre

Comedy. Drama | Cult movie. Experimental Cinema. Independent Film (US)

Synopsis

Presents a day in the life in Austin, Texas among its social outcasts and misfits, predominantly the twenty-something set, using a series of linear vignettes. These characters, who in some manner just don't fit into the establishment norms, move seamlessly from one scene to the next, randomly coming and going into one another's lives. Highlights include a UFO buff who adamantly insists that the U.S. has been on the moon since the 1950s, a woman who produces a glass slide purportedly of Madonna's pap smear, and an old anarchist who sympathetically shares his philosophy of life with a robber.

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Awards: 1991: Independent Spirit Awards: Nominated for Best Director & Best First Feature

1991: Sundance Film Festiva: Nominated for Grand Jury Prize

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Critics' reviews

"The movie never loses its affectionate, shaggy-dog sense of America as a place in which people, by now, have almost too much freedom on their hands."

Owen Gleiberman: Entertainment Weekly
"Linklater's control seems all but invisible here. But this kind of stylistic lucidity can only be the result of determined calculation and planning. The kind of happy accidents he captures don't come about by accident."

Hal Hinson: The Washington Post
"None of its characters is what you'd call normal, but the film's off-kilter view is such that they seem utterly in tune with their odd lives and odder times"

Bill Cosford: Miami Herald
"Linklater`s creation is delightfully daffy-far better, as one of the slackers puts it, than a sharp stick in the eye."

Clifford Terry: Chicago Tribune
"'Slacker' is a very funny, oddly touching, weirdly appealing look at the young (and not so young) people who live (sort of) in the nooks and crannies of this college town."

Jack Kroll: Newsweek
"The point is not really what is said, but the tone of voice, the word choices, the conversational strategies, the sense of life going on all the time, everywhere (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"

Roger Ebert: Chicago Sun-Times
"Once you're onto its wavelength (it doesn't take long), Linklater's passing parade starts to ring true"

Mike Clark: USA Today
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