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Dazed And Confused
1993
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 group of stone-heads, fraternal .. Read more
| Starring | Milla Jovovich, Anthony Rapp, Michelle Burke, Jason London |
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| Director | Richard Linklater |
| Genres | Comedy, Drama |
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Dazed And Confused
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 group of stone-heads, fraternal jocks, and snobby sorority girls--can't wait to haze the incoming freshman, an annual event as harrowing for freshman boys as it is humiliating for girls. Amidst this teenage wasteland of drugs, partying, and rock and roll is football star Pink (Jason London), who saves scrawny pre-frosh Mitch (Wiley Wiggins) from being paddled to oblivion by upper-classmates. But Pink has his own battles: he's struggling over the head coach's demand that football players sign a pledge to abstain from sex and all psychoactive substances. When a wild end-of-the-year party is cancelled, the students end up congregating at a beer-blast in the back woods, organized by aging hang-about Wooderson (Matthew McConaughey). In the same way that George Lucas assembled a cast of fresh young faces for AMERICAN GRAFFITI, Linklater here creates an unforgettable cast of characters that are immediately familiar to anyone who has ever been through high school.
| Starring | Milla Jovovich, Anthony Rapp, Michelle Burke, Jason London, Sasha Jenson, Adam Goldberg, Matthew McConaughey |
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| Director | Richard Linklater |
| Studio | UCA |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 38 mins HD DVD: 1 hr 38 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Comedy, Drama |
| Language | DVD: English HD DVD: English |
| Released | DVD: 05 Oct 2008 HD DVD: not available Production year: 1993 |
| Format | DVD |
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Some of Hollywood's hottest young talent cut their teeth on this ultra-hip movie, among them Matthew McConaughey, Parker Posey, Milla Jovovich, Ben Affleck and Michelle Burke. But it's Jason London and Rory Cochrane who carry this freewheeling story, as a couple of high school wasters on the last day of the summer term, not daring to look beyond the party in the woods that night. After giving voice to the disconnected youth of Austin, Texas, in his highly influential debut feature, Slacker, director Richard Linklater here defines the same generation as teenagers in 1976 — the year of the American bicentennial. Employing a deceptively simple pseudo-documentary style, this is school daze à la Fast Times at Ridgemont High, as opposed to the nostalgic wallowings of such rose-tinted memoirs as American Graffiti. This is teenage in the raw, with all the attendant angst, arrogance, aggression and amorousness. Every kid who was in your class is in here somewhere. Rarely have the attractions and distractions of killing time been so well presented. With a superb sense of period and a scorching soundtrack — Kiss, Alice Cooper et al — this honest and incisive portrait of the way we were is both funny and scary and ranks among the very best rock 'n' roll high school movies.
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School's breaking up for the summer of '76. The seniors debate party politics while next term's freshmen run the... read more on Time Out
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22 out of 25 people found this review helpful
The Best Comedy of the 90's
When ‘Dazed and Confused’ came out in 1993 it was a revelation. Seventies-kitch had been seen before (check ‘The Simpsons’), but it was not nearly as huge as it is now (check ‘That Seventies Show’). Beyond the soundtrack and the hair though, the real revelation was the feel. Quentin Tarantino says, that when he puts in ‘Dazed and Confused’ he is “hanging out with some friends.” This is precisely the glory of the movie. Following dozens of characters over the course of eighteen or so hours, D & C puts you in the nerve center of a high school social circle. Jocks, nerds, wannabes, stoners, and dropouts all circle around with their own tiny hopes and dreams, and the camera watches them with no other agenda than to show you the human side of late-teenage life. There is no high concept behind ‘Dazed and Confused’ (except perhaps the concept of showing people get high).
‘Dazed and Confused’ centers around (but never exclusively on) the high-school quarterback Randall ‘Pink’ Floyd, who is friends with everyone, but is never fake for a moment. Pink’s dilemma is a moral one, (whether or not to lie to the coach and say he won’t do drugs), and his struggle with the problem shows us his goodness and idealism. It’s a ‘Catcher in the Rye’ for the next generation – and it's twice as much fun as that book ever was. -
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8 out of 8 people found this review helpful
Boring
Tedious film that was not in any way captivating. Perhaps it’s a cultural thing but I just don’t get the US obsession with ‘high school high jinx’.
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