A group of suburban teenagers try to support each other through the difficult task of becoming adults. With Richard Linklater, Rudy Basquez, Jean Caffeine, Jan Hockey. 21 of 27 people found this review helpful. Linklater caroms from one character to another in the college community of Austin, TX, moving through an unlinked assortment of people who like to hear themselves talk but don't like to listen very much. The three roommates have proudly scammed their way through the last four years of college and now, during the final exams, these big-men-on-campus are about to be busted by the most unlikely dude in school.Rated R for strong language and sexual content, and for brief drug use Richard Linklater's groundbreakingly independent debut, "Slacker," is a truly odd concept for a film: people conversing with one another and moving through their lives like usual.
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However, as irony would have it, Linklater's script plays about as big a role in almost saving the film as it does in seeing the final product's collapse into mediocrity, being artistically overblown and maybe even intellectually overblown (Alright, Dick, we get it, you like to write characters with some kind of philosophical idea), but clever, at least in writing dialogue that ends up being instrumental in this minimalist character study, and attracts a fair deal of intrigue with its amusing snap and even using plenty of thoroughly interesting themes to mold unique, if sometimes unbelievable characters. January 1, 2000 2.25/5 - Mediocre Drama
Visual style is, of course, pretty important in a film this naturalist, and while this effort's filming is not as celebratory of a distinguished environment as the filming of "Learn to Plow" was, cinematographer Lee Daniel takes advantage of Richard Linklater's having equipment of much higher quality to work with by delivering on some appealingly even coloration and lighting that is relatively realistic enough to immerse, though not as much as the framing and camerawork. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Highlights include a UFO buff who adamantly insists that the U.S. has been on the moon since the 1950s, a woman who produces a glass slide purportedly of Madonna's pap smear, and an old anarchist who sympathetically shares his philosophy of life with a robber. Ah, that most lovable of 90s archetypes: The Slacker. Dave, Sam and Jeff are about to graduate from Holden University with Honors in lying, cheating and scheming. Changes to
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A nameless young character goes into travels to the country, meeting some acquaintances and strangers as well, having banal conversations, dedicating his existence into daily mundane ... August 8, 2020 The whole movie is basically goofy college humor and most movies like that don't really have a well thought out movie. | Rating: 3/4 | Slacker