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Slacker

1991 · 1h 37m · R Comedy, Drama
Directed by Richard Linklater

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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.

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81%
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Fresh

What Linklater has captured is a generation of bristling minds unable to turn their thoughts into action.

Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
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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