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Slacker

Cast

Richard Linklater, Mark James, Jerry Delony, Rudy Basquez View All


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Richard Linklater (Director), Richard Linklater (Writer) View All

Release: Jul. 5th, 1991
Runtime: 1 hour, 37 minutes
Austin, Texas, is an Eden for the young and unambitious, from the enthusiastically eccentric to the dangerously apathetic. Here, the nobly lazy can eschew responsibility in favor of nursing their esoteric obsessions. The locals include a backseat philosopher who passionately expounds on his dream theories to a seemingly comatose cabbie, a young woman who tries to hawk Madonna's Pap test to anyone who will listen and a kindly old anarchist...
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Iroquois
Linklater, an art and literature buff, managed to take influence from the unlikeliest of places and craft them into a compelling tale of "nothing going on". Never before has nothing at all looked like so much..
Takoma11
But whatever is happening in the movie, be it a man mourning (or maybe not) the death of his mother or a motor-mouthed woman trying to sell what she claims is a preserved pap smear of Madonna, Linklater allows the sequences to develop with a sense of both time and space that is very atypical of most....


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