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Richard Linklater - what members say


  • Tape
  • Tape review by herohat from Bath,england.
    Rated - 2 stars Not Linklater's best. 14 February 2006
    ...This movie looks like it was shot on Richard Linklater's day off with a few friends,the promising opening centering on Hawke's unpredictable character goes nowhere and there are...  
  • Slacker
  • Slacker review by from STRATHAVEN
    Rated - 2 stars 6 November 2004
    ...I love Richard Linklater, one of the kings of dialogue and charactarisation. By it's nature, this film has to rely entirely on it's dialogue - which i'm sad to say is mostly dir...  
  • Waking Life
  • Waking Life review by Alfod from West Midlands
    Rated - 4 stars Interesting 26 October 2005
    ...ly innovative movies are always a draw for me and I was intrigued to learn that Richard Linklater had brought out a full length movie in which live action had been rotoscope-ani...  

Richard Linklater - filmography


  • Me and Orson Welles (2008)
    Starring: Ben Chaplin,  Claire Danes,  Zac Efron
    Director: Richard Linklater
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    New York, 1937: RICHARD SAMUELS (17) is bored with school and dreams of treading the boards on Broadway. After a chance encounter with a theatre company outside a derelict theatre, The Mercury, Richard soon finds himself inside chatting with Orson Welles, the Director of Broadways first ..read more »
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 82% from 10 members
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  • The Bad News Bears on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Billy Bob Thornton,  Greg Kinnear,  Marcia Gay Harden
    Director: Richard Linklater
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Billy Bob Thornton delivers a wickedly funny performance in this hilarious hit from the director of School of Rock. Morris Buttermaker (Thorton), former pro ballplayer-turned-exterminator, expects to make some easy money coaching a srtuggling Little League team called the Bears. What he gets is a ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 49% from 2,927 members
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  • Before Sunset on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Ethan Hawke,  Julie Delpy
    Director: Richard Linklater
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    When Jesse (Ethan Hawke) and Celine (Julie Delpy) met on a Eurail train, the connection between them was immediate and profound. The 14-hour relationship that followed, as the pair explored the spontaneous and unexpected in Vienna, ended on a train platform where they swore they'd meet again six ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 61% from 22,081 members
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  • School Of Rock on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Jack Black,  Joan Cusack,  Mike White
    Director: Richard Linklater
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    SCHOOL OF ROCK is a hilarious romp that parents will enjoy as much as their children. Jack Black stars as Dewey Finn, a wannabe rock star who doesn't seem to be rocking much of anything these days. Kicked out of the band that he started and about to be kicked out of his apartment, Dewey pretends ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 54,039 members
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  • Tape on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Ethan Hawke,  Uma Thurman,  Robert Sean Leonard
    Director: Richard Linklater
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Richard Linklater, known for directing films that take place over a one-day period (SLACKER, DAZED AND CONFUSED, BEFORE SUNRISE), magnifies that concept even further with TAPE. Adapted from the Stephen Belber play, TAPE takes place in a Lansing, Michigan hotel room, where two old friends reunite ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 1,773 member
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  • Waking Life on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Julie Delpy,  Ethan Hawke,  Adam Goldberg
    Director: Richard Linklater
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Director Richard Linklater presents this computer-animated, dreamlike, meandering film about a college-age man (Wiley Wiggins) who floats in and out of a series of philosophical discussions and ethereal experiences, meeting an interesting cast of characters along the way. Each character that Wiley ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 62% from 3,771 members
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  • MTV's Beavis And Butthead Do America on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Beavis And Butthead,  Mike Judge,  Cloris Leachman
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Beavis and Butt-head, MTV's metal-head morons, finally conquer the big screen in this on-the-road, on-the-run comic adventure. The boys run into real trouble when--and this really sucks!--their all-important television set is stolen and they get mistaken for a pair of hit-men hired to "do" a man's ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 1,643 member
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  • Slacker on DVD (1991)
    Starring: Richard Linklater,  Rudy Basquez,  Jean Caffeine
    Director: Richard Linklater
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    SLACKER, a unique slice-of-life series of linked but barely related episodes, follows the socially disconnected, overly educated, and barely motivated denizens of the coffeehouses, clubs, bars, apartments, stores, and streets of the college town of Austin, Texas. Richard Linklater's debut feature ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 56% from 1,900 member
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Richard Linklater - watch online


  • School Of Rock to Watch Now (2003)
    Starring: Jack Black,  Joan Cusack,  Mike White
    Director: Richard Linklater
    Certificate: Certificate: PG (TBC)
    Watch now: £2.49
    Run time: 108 minutes
    Jack Black stars as a hell-raising guitarist with delusions of grandeur. Kicked out of his band and desperate for work, he impersonates a substitute teacher and turns a class of fifth grade high-achievers into high-voltage rock and rollers. Joan Cusack portrays the principal of the private school ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 273 members
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  • Tape to Watch Now (2001)
    Starring: Ethan Hawke,  Robert Sean Leonard,  Uma Thurman
    Director: Richard Linklater
    Certificate: Certificate: 15 (TBC)
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    Run time: 83 minutes
    Richard Linklater, known for directing films that take place over a one-day period (SLACKER, DAZED AND CONFUSED, BEFORE SUNRISE), magnifies that concept even further with TAPE. Adapted from the Stephen Belber play, TAPE takes place in a Lansing, Michigan hotel room, where two old friends reunite ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 60% from 61 members
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Richard Linklater facts

5 most recent films

Me and Orson Welles - 4.0 stars
Fast Food Nation - 3.0 stars
A Scanner Darkly - 3.0 stars
The Bad News Bears - 2.5 stars
Before Sunset - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

MTV's Beavis And Butthead Do America - 3.5 stars
School Of Rock - 3.5 stars
Dazed And Confused - 3.5 stars
Before Sunrise - 3.5 stars
Waking Life - 3.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Dazed And Confused - HD DVD Version - 3.5 stars
Me and Orson Welles - 4.0 stars
The Bad News Bears - 2.5 stars
Tape - 2.5 stars
The Newton Boys - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Ethan Hawke - 9 times - show films
Adam Goldberg - 4 times - show films
Julie Delpy - 4 times - show films
Matthew McConaughey - 3 times - show films
Greg Kinnear - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Kim J - 2 times - show films
Mike Judge - 2 times - show films
Yvette Kaplan - 2 times - show films
Kim Jae Joong - 2 times - show films
none - 1 times - show films