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  • Tape
  • Tape review by herohat from Bath,england.
    Rated - 2.0 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...   Read customer review
  • Slacker
  • Slacker review by from STRATHAVEN
    Rated - 2.0 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...   Read customer review
  • Waking Life
  • Waking Life review by Alfod from West Midlands
    Rated - 4.0 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...   Read customer review

Richard Linklater - filmography


  • Great Directors (2009)
    Starring: Bernardo Bertolucci,  Catherine Breillat,  Liliana Cavani
    Director: Angela Ismailos
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    GREAT DIRECTORS, directed by Angela Ismailos, features original, in-depth conversations with nine of the world's greatest living directors: Bernardo Bertolucci, David Lynch, Liliana Cavani, Stephen Frears, Agnes Varda, Ken Loach, Todd Haynes, Catherine Breillat, Richard Linklater and John Sayles. ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 2 members
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  • Me and Orson Welles on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Ben Chaplin,  Claire Danes,  Zac Efron
    Director: Richard Linklater
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    ME AND ORSON WELLES is set in the exciting world of the New York Theatre. Teenage student Richard Samuels (Zac Efron) lucks his way into a minor role in the legendary 1937 Mercury Theatre production of Julius Caesar, directed by a youthful Orson Welles (strikingly portrayed by newcomer Christian ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 8,559 members
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  • Fast Food Nation on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Kris Kristofferson,  Patricia Arquette,  Bruce Willis
    Director: Richard Linklater
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    If "Super Size Me" took on the burger, "Fast Food Nation" takes on the whole takeaway food industry! Don Henderson is a corporate marketing whizz at Mickey's Fast Food Restaurant Chain, home of "The Big One". When he discovers that contaminated meat is getting into the frozen patties of the ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 9,856 members
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  • A Scanner Darkly on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Robert Downey Jr.,  Winona Ryder,  Woody Harrelson
    Director: Richard Linklater
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Richard Linklater's adaptation of Philip K. Dick's classic novel is a challenging, mind-bending experience that cautions about the dangers of excessive drug use as well as the government's capacity to abuse and manipulate power. Using the same interpolated rotoscoping technique that Linklater ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 24,440 members
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  • Bad News Bears on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Billy Bob Thornton,  Greg Kinnear,  Marcia Gay Harden
    Director: Richard Linklater
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    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 »
    2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 3,257 members
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  • Before Sunset on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Ethan Hawke,  Julie Delpy
    Director: Richard Linklater
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    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 »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 24,223 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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 56,194 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 »
    2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 2,073 members
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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 »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 4,327 members
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  • The Newton Boys on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Skeet Ulrich,  Ethan Hawke,  Matthew McConaughey
    Director: Richard Linklater
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Texas filmmaker Richard Linklater's lighthearted Western tells the true story of the Newton brothers, who are regarded as the most successful bank robbers in the history of the United States. The time is the early 1920s and the place is Texas. When Willis Newton (Matthew McConaughey) returns from a ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 566 members
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  • Suburbia (1996)
    Starring: Jayce Bartok,  Amie Carey,  Nicky Katt
    Director: Richard Linklater
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Director Richard Linklater and writer/actor Eric Bogosian collaborated on this adaptation of Bogosian's play about a handful of people edging into their 20's who seem like the poor relations of the genial eccentrics in Linklater's Slacker. While the Texas bohemians in Slacker has their myriad ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 76% from 11 members
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  • Dazed And Confused - HD (1993)
    Starring: Milla Jovovich,  Anthony Rapp,  Michelle Burke
    Director: Richard Linklater
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Richard Linklater's DAZED AND CONFUSED takes a hysterical, nostalgic cross-clique look at American high school social development. On the last day of school in May 1976, students at a suburban Texas high school wait, lackadaisically, for classes to end. The restless almost-seniors--an eclectic ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 62 members
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  • Dazed And Confused on DVD (1993)
    Starring: Milla Jovovich,  Anthony Rapp,  Michelle Burke
    Director: Richard Linklater
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Richard Linklater's DAZED AND CONFUSED takes a hysterical, nostalgic cross-clique look at American high school social development. On the last day of school in May 1976, students at a suburban Texas high school wait, lackadaisically, for classes to end. The restless almost-seniors--an eclectic ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 7,167 members
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  • Slacker on DVD (1991)
    Starring: Richard Linklater,  Rudy Basquez,  Jean Caffeine
    Director: Richard Linklater
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    One of the key American independent films of the 1990s, Richard Linklater's feature debut is an audacious look at the twentysomething culture in the college town of Austin, Texas. Set over the course of a 24-hour period, the film is a collection of short, unconnected glimpses into the dropout ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 2,450 members
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Richard Linklater facts

5 most recent films

Bernie - 4.0 stars
Great Directors - 3.0 stars
Me and Orson Welles - 3.0 stars
Fast Food Nation - 3.0 stars
A Scanner Darkly - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Dazed And Confused - HD - 3.5 stars
MTV's Beavis And Butthead Do America - 3.5 stars
Dazed And Confused - 3.5 stars
Before Sunrise - 3.5 stars
School of Rock - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Great Directors - 3.0 stars
Suburbia - 4.0 stars
Bernie - 4.0 stars
Dazed And Confused - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Bad News Bears - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Ethan Hawke - 12 times - show films
Julie Delpy - 6 times - show films
Matthew McConaughey - 5 times - show films
Adam Goldberg - 5 times - show films
Greg Kinnear - 5 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Mike Judge - 2 times - show films
Yvette Kaplan - 2 times - show films
Kim Jae Joong - 2 times - show films
Kim J - 2 times - show films
Angela Ismailos - 1 times - show films