slacker

Director: richard linklater

Actor: richard linklater,rudy basquez,jean caffeine,jan hockey

Data Published: Fri Jul 05 1991

Genres: Comedy,Drama

Key Words: austin texas,twenty something,philosophy,anarchist,pseudo intellectual

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102943/

WIKI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slacker_(film)

Description: Slacker is a movie starring Richard Linklater, Rudy Basquez, and Jean Caffeine. A day in the life of Austin, Texas as the camera roams from place to place and provides a brief look at the overeducated, the social misfits, the...

Plot: Slacker follows a single day in the life of an ensemble of mostly under-30 bohemians and misfits in Austin, Texas. The film follows various characters and scenes, never staying with one character or conversation for more than a few minutes before picking up someone else in the scene and following them. The characters include Linklater as a talkative taxi passenger, a UFO buff who insists the U.S. has been on the moon since the 1950s, a JFK conspiracy theorist, an elderly anarchist who befriends a man trying to rob his house, a serial television set collector, and a hipster woman trying to sell a Madonna pap smear. The woman selling the pap smear appears on the film poster, and was played by Butthole Surfers drummer Teresa Taylor.[4] Most of the characters grapple with feelings of social exclusion or political marginalization, which are recurring themes in their conversations. They discuss social class, terrorism, joblessness, and government control of the media.