Production Year: 1991 - Drama - Director: Richard Linklater - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring: Richard Linklater, Rudy Basquez, Jean Caffeine more
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
Slacker DVD
Richard Linklater's Slacker presents a day in the life of a subculture of marginal ... more
eccentric and overeducated citizens in and around the University of Texas at Austin. Shooting the film on 16mm for a mere 000 writer/producer/director Linklater and his close-knit crew of friends eschewed a traditional plot choosing instead to employ long takes and fluid transitions to create a tapestry of over a hundred characters each as unique as the last culminating in an episodic portrait of a distinct vernacular culture and a tribute to bohemian cerebration. Slacker is a prescient look at an emerging generation of aggressive nonparticipants and one of the keynote films of the American independent film movement of the 1990s.
Slacker DVD
Richard Linklater's Slacker presents a day in the life of a subculture of marginal ... more
eccentric and overeducated citizens in and around the University of Texas at Austin. Shooting the film on 16mm for a mere 000 writer/producer/director Linklater and his close-knit crew of friends eschewed a traditional plot choosing instead to employ long takes and fluid transitions to create a tapestry of over a hundred characters each as unique as the last culminating in an episodic portrait of a distinct vernacular culture and a tribute to bohemian cerebration. Slacker is a prescient look at an emerging generation of aggressive nonparticipants and one of the keynote films of the American independent film movement of the 1990s.
Production Year: 2004 - Drama - Director: Nick Cassavetes - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over, 12 years and over - Starring: Rachel McAdams, Ryan Gosling, Gena Rowlands
Production Year: 1981 - Drama - Director: Franco Zeffirelli - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring: Brooke Shields, Martin Hewitt, Shirley Knight, Don Murray, Richard Kiley, Penelope Milford, Beatrice Straight
The film starts with a guy (played by director Richard Linklater) boring a taxi driver with talk of alternative realities. We then move on to see a car knocking over a woman in the street. Then the cops come for the driver, who, it turns out, was the victims son. And then the camera moves on to something else. This continues throughout. We follow one story, then move on. The film constantly drifts around. The whole movie is a plotless collection of snippets from 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 is a freeflowing documentary-style affair, which depicts the bizarrely ordinary. Not much happens, but it's still entertaining.
Advantages: Its quite short Disadvantages: Where do I start
...of the guys who was meant to be helping him, he looses it. Not only does he want to get the room mates chucked out of university but also split up the new relationship between Dave and Angela. Does he succeed? Do the guys turn the tables on him? Does true love find its way? Do we really care?
I was talked into getting Slackers after a friend recommended it, with the line "It's like American Pie, but with intelligence". Oh what a mistake, maybe I misheard him, but Slackers is definitely not an intelligent version of American Pie. I can see the similarities, the stars of the film are 3 university students, a nerd and a beautiful girl and there is plenty of over the top gags which would fit into an American Pie movie. But unlike American Pie, Slackers doesn't gel as a decent film. First of the problems is that although the film is set in the real...
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Advantages: Brilliantly funny in places, especially involving Jason Schwartzman. Disadvantages: Boring romance plot and loses some of its inventiveness with same-old jokes.
...situations, mainly involving Ethan as the highly unstable, almost psychotic stalker. In this role Schwartzman steals the show as the wannabe cool guy on campus, which leads to hilarious cosequences. Although the film features some invention in its humour, it can't fully break the teen gross out mould, with its dose of S&M and an encounter between Ethan and a randy semi-naked elderly woman in a hospital.
On the whole its a movie worth watching for the brilliant pieces of comedy involving Schwartzman even if you do have to sit through a pretty dull romance scenario. Even if the comedy does occaisionally lapse into gross out its relatively mild compared to other similar comedies such as Van Wilder. Not as good as American Pie or Roadtrip, but then few films of this genre are.
As for the extras on the DVD, these are minimal and disappointing...
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Advantages: Hopkins, Moore, Story and Visuals Disadvantages: Slightly weak script
...information compared to the other slackers who release their big titles on DVD with little more than the ever appealing 'inter-active menus' and throw in the odd trailer. Well done MGM keep up the good work.
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Director: Ridley Scott
Starring: Anthony Hopkins
Julianne Moore
Ray Liotta
Gary Oldman...
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Plot: 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, clubs, bars, apartments, stores, and streets of the college town of Austin, Texas.
Release details
DVD Region: DVD
Studio(s): CINEMA CLUB; SONY DADC, IN2FILM; PINK ENTERTAINMENT; SONY DADC, METRODOME DISTRIBUTION; SONY DADC
Release date: 13/01/2003
No of Discs: 1
Catalogue No: CCD 9427
Barcode: 5014138294274
Languages
Main Language: English
DVD Description
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, 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.
Technical information
Special Features: Trailer, Pictures, Biographies, Production Notes, Facts, Interactive menu
Sound: Dolby Digital Stereo, Dolby Digital, Dolby Digital 5.1
Dubbing Sound: Dolby Digital Stereo English
Professional reviews
Review: "...[The cast is] so effective that it's hard to believe they didn't make up their own lunacies....Ageless..." (New York Times, p.C8, 22/03/1991)
"...Scrappy and shrewdly hilarious....Linklater has the gift of a true satirist..." (Rolling Stone, p.115, 11/07/1991)
"...Director Richard Linklater pokes loving fun at disaffected twentysomethings..." -- 3 out of 4 stars (USA Today, p.5D, 15/08/1991)
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