Movie - Slacker (Richard Linklater, 1991)

The movie that made it fun to watch art film! Completely watchable and weird, fun, beautiful, fascinating! (Good god, I love this film)

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Slacker is a 1991 American independent film written and directed by Richard Linklater, who also appears in the film. Slacker was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize - Dramatic at the Sundance Film Festival in 1991.

Slacker
Slacker film poster
Directed by	Richard Linklater
Produced by	Richard Linklater
Written by	Richard Linklater
Starring	Richard Linklater Kim Krizan Marc James Stella Weir John Slate Louis Mackey Teresa Taylor
Cinematography	Lee Daniel
Editing by	Scott Rhodes
Distributed by	Orion Classics
Release date(s)	July 1990 (Austin premiere) July 5, 1991 (U.S.A. distrib.)
Running time	105 min.
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$23,000

Slacker is a uniquely structured and seemingly plotless film, following a single day in the life of an ensemble of mostly twenty-something bohemians and misfits in Austin, Texas. The film follows various characters and scenes, never staying with one character or conversation for more than a few minutes before picking up someone else in the scene and following them. The characters include Linklater as a talkative taxi passenger, a UFO buff who insists the U.S. has been on the moon since the 1950s, a JFK conspiracy theorist, an elderlyanarchist who befriends a man trying to rob his house, a serial television set collector and a woman trying to sell a Madonna pap smear. The woman selling the pap smear appears on the movie poster, and was played by Butthole Surfers drummer Teresa Taylor.^[1] Most of the characters grapple with feelings of social exclusion or political marginalization, which are recurring themes in their conversations. They discuss social class, terrorism, joblessness, and government control of the media.

Movie - Slacker (Richard Linklater, 1991)

Movie - Slacker (Richard Linklater, 1991)

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