Slacker (2-DVD) R

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  • Number of Discs: 2
  • Rated: R
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 40 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: September 17, 2013
  • Originally Released: 1991
  • Label: Criterion Collection

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User Ratings: 10,299
Rating: C- -- An exercise in meandering self-importance. Full Review
Lessons of Darkness
May 5, 2005
Rating: 3/4 -- A movie with an appeal almost impossible to describe. Full Review
Chicago Sun-Times
Jan 1, 2000
Despite its title, it isn’t so much about slackers as it is about dreamers, obsessives, and other assorted misfits, many of whom are more industrious in their rejection of conventional society than are the folks who choose to conform.
A.V. Club
Sep 25, 2013
Rating: 3/4 -- What Linklater has captured is a generation of bristling minds unable to turn their thoughts into action.
Rolling Stone
May 13, 2001
...Scrappy and shrewdly hilarious....Linklater has the gift of a true satirist...
Rolling Stone
Jul 11, 1991
Rating: 2.5/4 -- Linklater is very aware that his film doesn't have a linear narrative and the movie is structured with that knowledge, as well as for a variety in tone and theme. Full Review
Scene-Stealers.com
Oct 18, 2013
The experience is funny, surreal and weird. Sometimes it's even scary. Full Review
Washington Post
Jan 1, 2000

Product Description:

Texan filmmaker Richard Linklater's debut independent feature takes an original approach to traditional narrative, creating an entirely new form of cinema in the process. Shot at a leisurely pace with a style similar to Robert Bresson, SLACKER follows the unmotivated inhabitants of Austin, Texas, over the course of one day, as they waste their time talking about politics, philosophy, and popular culture. Beginning with a cab ride in which the fare (Linklater himself) suggests to the driver a theory about alternate universes (which also happens to mirror what transpires on screen), the film abruptly shifts to another character and situation after an elderly woman is hit by a car. Soon after, another character is introduced, and the camera follows her. This formula sticks for the whole film; by the end, dozens of characters have been introduced and, just as quickly, been left behind.

Linklater spent years taking notes in order to infuse original dialogue into every situation, which results in a sometimes pathetic, sometimes poignant, always amusing trip into a lackadaisical college town. Luckily, for fans of new and inventive approaches to filmmaking, Linklater himself wasn't a "slacker," ensuring the film's place in indie film history.

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  • UPC: 715515109710
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