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Slacker
Comedy, Drama - 1991
7.1
81%
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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.
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Details

Rated:
R
Runtime:
97 min
Release date:
5 Jul 1991
Country:
US
Languages:
English
Budget:
$23,000
Revenue:
$1,228,108
Awards:
1 win & 3 nominations

Top Critics Reviews

fresh:
A movie with an appeal almost impossible to describe.
– Roger Ebert,
Chicago Sun-Times,
1 Jan 2000
fresh:
The experience is funny, surreal and weird. Sometimes it's even scary.
– Desson Thomson,
Washington Post,
1 Jan 2000
fresh:
This is a work of scatterbrained originality, funny, unexpected and ceaselessly engaging.
– Hal Hinson,
Washington Post,
1 Jan 2000
fresh:
What Linklater has captured is a generation of bristling minds unable to turn their thoughts into action.
– Peter Travers,
Rolling Stone,
12 May 2001
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