Slacker movie storyline. Presents a day in the life in Austin, Texas among its social outcasts and misfits, predominantly the twenty-something set, using a series of linear vignettes. These characters, who in some manner just don’t fit into the establishment norms, move seamlessly from one scene to the next, randomly coming and going into one another’s lives. Highlights include a UFO buff who adamantly insists that the U.S. has been on the moon since the 1950s, a woman who produces a glass slide purportedly of Madonna’s pap smear, and an old anarchist who sympathetically shares his philosophy of life with a robber.
Slacker is a 1991 American independent comedy-drama film written and directed by Richard Linklater (in his feature film debut), who also appears in the film. Slacker was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize – Dramatic at the Sundance Film Festival in 1991. In 2012, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant”.
Slacker (1991)
Directed by: Richard Linklater
Starring: Richard Linklater, Kim Krizan, Mark James, Stella Weir, John Slate, Louis Mackey, Teresa Taylor, Jennifer Schaudies, Keith McCormack, Brecht Andersch
Screenplay by: Richard Linklater
Production Design by: Deborah Pastor
Cinematography by: Lee Daniel
Film Editing by: Scott Rhodes
Art Direction by: Danny Ned Moore
MPAA Rating: R for language.
Distributed by: Orion Classics
Release Date: July 5, 1991
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