Slacker (1990) (original) (raw)
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Original title
Slacker
Year
1990
Running time
97 min.
Country
United States
Director
Screenwriter
Cast
Cinematography
Producer
Genre
Comedy. Drama | Cult movie. Experimental Cinema. Independent Film (US)
Synopsis
Presents a day in the life in Austin, Texas among its social outcasts and misfits, predominantly the twenty-something set, using a series of linear vignettes. These characters, who in some manner just don't fit into the establishment norms, move seamlessly from one scene to the next, randomly coming and going into one another's lives. 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.
Awards
1991: Independent Spirit Awards: Nominated for Best Director & Best First Feature
1991: Sundance Film Festiva: Nominated for Grand Jury Prize
Critics' reviews
- "The movie never loses its affectionate, shaggy-dog sense of America as a place in which people, by now, have almost too much freedom on their hands."
- "None of its characters is what you'd call normal, but the film's off-kilter view is such that they seem utterly in tune with their odd lives and odder times"
- "Linklater`s creation is delightfully daffy-far better, as one of the slackers puts it, than a sharp stick in the eye."
- "'Slacker' is a very funny, oddly touching, weirdly appealing look at the young (and not so young) people who live (sort of) in the nooks and crannies of this college town."
- "Once you're onto its wavelength (it doesn't take long), Linklater's passing parade starts to ring true"
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