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Slacker
Directed by
Richard Linklater
R
1991
1h 37m
Comedy
,
Drama
7.0
82%
77%
6.7
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A day in the life of Austin, Texas as the camera roams from place to place and provides a brief look at the overeducated, the social misfits, the outcasts and the oddballs.
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Cast of Slacker
Richard Linklater
Should Have Stayed at Bus Station / Director / Writer / Producer
Rudy Basquez
Taxi Driver
Jean Caffeine
Roadkill
Jan Hockey
Jogger
Stephan Hockey
Running Late
Mark James
Hit-and-Run Son
Samuel Dietert
Grocery Grabber of Death's Bounty
Bob Boyd
Officer Bozzio
Terrence Kirk
Officer Love
Keith McCormack
Street Musician
Jennifer Schaudies
Walking to Coffee Shop
Dan Kratochvil
Espresso Czar / Masonic Malcontent
Maris Strautmanis
Giant Cappuccino
Brecht Andersch
Dostoyevsky Wannabe
Tommy Pallotta
Looking for Missing Friend
Jerry Delony
Been on the Moon Since the 50's
Heather West
Tura Satana Look-Alike
John Spath
Co-op Guy
Ron Marks
Bush Basher
Daniel Dugan
Comb Game Player
Slacker Ratings & Reviews
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
When the way characters are described in the credits ("Dostoevsky wanna-be," "Having a breakthrough day") is more involving than the characters themselves, you know you're in for a long evening.
The New Yorker
Richard Brody
The film presents the teeming weirdness of daily life in Austin as a swarm of individual alternatives, each spinning wildly out of control and crashing into one another's active fantasies to unleash vast creative energy.
The Spool
Lisa Laman
Making sure those differences between its countless characters are both heavily discernible, and endlessly interesting, is what allows the individuals of Slacker to come alive as people.
LarsenOnFilm
Josh Larsen
Pretension is kept at bay by the fact that whenever someone is holding court, the others in the scene barely seem to be listening.
Scene-Stealers.com
Eric Melin
Linklater is very aware that his film doesn't have a linear narrative and the movie is structured with that knowledge, as well as for a variety in tone and theme.
ColeSmithey.com
Cole Smithey
[VIDEO ESSAY] "Slacker" is a hallmark of American independent cinema because it is so thoroughly original in its concepts and execution.
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
Slacker has a marvelously low-key observational cool.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
The indie film has a fresh feel.
EmanuelLevy.Com
Emanuel Levy
A charming ensemble piece, that may be the ultimate campus comedy, about media-fixated, affectless youngsters who became spokepersons for Generation X
Lessons of Darkness
Nick Schager
An exercise in meandering self-importance.
Capital Times (Madison, WI)
Rob Thomas
A brilliant film that plays like a chain of linked short short stories.
Arizona Daily Star
Phil Villarreal
A landscape-changing film for what it represents, as well as for what it contains.
New York Times
Vincent Canby
After a while, a certain monotony sets in, as well as desperation.
Austin Chronicle
Christopher Walters
The movie buries its treasures in the crevasses of its drollery and craziness.
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
What Linklater has captured is a generation of bristling minds unable to turn their thoughts into action.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
A movie with an appeal almost impossible to describe.
Washington Post
Hal Hinson
This is a work of scatterbrained originality, funny, unexpected and ceaselessly engaging.
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
The experience is funny, surreal and weird. Sometimes it's even scary.
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