Fresh
What Linklater has captured is a generation of bristling minds unable to turn their thoughts into action.
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
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Slacker
Overview
Austin, Texas, is an Eden for the young and unambitious, from the enthusiastically eccentric to the dangerously apathetic. Here, the nobly lazy can eschew responsibility in favor of nursing their esoteric obsessions. The locals include a backseat philosopher who passionately expounds on his dream theories to a seemingly comatose cabbie, a young woman who tries to hawk Madonna's Pap test to anyone who will listen and a kindly old anarchist looking for recruits.
Director and cast
- Richard Linklater Director
- Richard Linklater as Should Have Stayed at Bus Station
- Rudy Basquez as Taxi Driver
- Jean Caffeine as Roadkill
- Jan Hockey as Jogger
- Stephan Hockey as Running Late
- Mark James as Hit-and-Run Son
- Samuel Dietert as Grocery Grabber of Death's Bounty
- Bob Boyd as Officer Bozzio
- Terrence Kirk as Officer Love
- Keith McCormack as Street Musician
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
82%
Tomatometer
Fresh
This is a work of scatterbrained originality, funny, unexpected and ceaselessly engaging.
Hal Hinson, Washington Post
Fresh
The experience is funny, surreal and weird. Sometimes it's even scary.
Desson Thomson, Washington Post
Fresh
A movie with an appeal almost impossible to describe.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
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