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Slacker
1991
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 is a cult sensation that .. Read more
| Starring | Richard Linklater, Rudy Basquez, Jean Caffeine |
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| Director | Richard Linklater |
| Genres | Comedy, Drama |
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Slacker
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 is a cult sensation that launched a thousand imitators, replete with garrulous, too-cool twenty-somethings debating pop culture phenomena, none of which can match the spacey, floating-camera timbre of the original.
| Starring | Richard Linklater, Rudy Basquez, Jean Caffeine |
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| Director | Richard Linklater |
| Studio | METRODOME |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 37 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Comedy, Drama |
| Language | English |
| Released | DVD: 07 Jan 2008 Production year: 1991 |
| Format | DVD |
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Director Richard Linklater — responsible for the acclaimed romantic comedy Before Sunrise and Suburbia — made his name with this offbeat, low-budget effort, whose title was taken up by the bored twentysomethings of 1990s America. There's no plot to speak of, with Linklater instead taking a rather hazy ramble through the lives of a large number of eccentrics living in Austin, Texas. It's an occasionally over-indulgent affair, but the natural performances and dizzying number of barmy conspiracy theories and philosophies win you over in the end.
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A little like David Byrne's True Stories, minus the music and plot, this is a freewheeling, documentary-style... read more on Time Out
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10 out of 10 people found this review helpful
An excellent study of life
I saw this when it first came out at the cinema so this is hardly a contemporary review but I just thought I try and balance some the negative comments. I loved it!
The film is a set of vignettes simply told. A passer-by will become the central character and we briefly get a glimpse of their life. Then a group of people appear in the background and we follow them for a while and so on it goes.
To me this film captured life in a city perfectly. It's like a big snapshot but instead of just looking at it from one angle it focuses on many. I found this a very realistic and interesting way of looking at things.
If you have ever wondered what goes on in the lives of all those people who you briefly engage with every day after they have disappeared out of your life - give this a try.
This is by far by favourite Linklaker film (although there are still a few that I haven't seen so I may be missing a gem or two!) -
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2 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Slacker
Turned it off after 20 minutes, it may be a cult film but it's not my cup of tea. Given it no stars because i didn't actually watch it
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