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Production Year: 1991 - Drama - Director: Richard Linklater - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring: Richard Linklater, Rudy Basquez, Jean Caffeine more

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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,...
more...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.





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A Generation X movie
Review of Slacker (DVD) by wyn

Advantages: Amusing take on the slacker generation
Disadvantages: There's no plot as such

...the everyday existence of various slacker types in Austin, Texas. People talk about conspiracy theories, their artistic projects, political action, popular culture, whatever. It's kind of strange, but compelling. I particularly enjoyed one couple of characters discussing a theory that the reason behind the cartoon The Smurfs is that it's a way for getting children used to blue people, so that they're ready for Krisna coming to earth. The whole movie ... Read review

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