SLACKER

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• Release Year: 1991
• Genre: Adult, Comedy, Drama
• Plot: Richard Linklater’s Slacker presents a day in the life of a loose-knit subculture of marginal, eccentric, and overeducated citizens in Austin, Texas. Shooting film on 16mm for a mere $3,000, writer/producer/director Linklater and his crew of friends eschewed a traditional plot, choosing instead to employ long takes and fluid transitions to create a tapestry of over a hundred characters, each as unique as the last, culminating in an episodic portrait of a distinct vernacular culture and a tribute to bohemian cerebration. Slacker is a prescient look at an emerging generation of aggressive nonparticipants, and one of the key films of the American independent film movement of the 1990s.
• Cast: Don Stroud, Louis Black, Bruce Hughes, Richard Linklater, Rudy Basquez, Jean Caffeine, Jan Hockey, Stephan Hockey, Mark James, Samuel Dietert, Bob Boyd, Terrence Kirk, Keith McCormack, Jennifer Schaudies, Dan Kratochvil, Maris Strautmanis, Brecht Andersch, Tommy Pallotta, Jerry Delony, Heather West, John Spath, Ron Marks, Daniel Dugan, Brian Crockett, Scott Marcus, Stella Weir, Teresa Taylor, Mark Harris, Greg Wilson, Deborah Pastor, Gina Lalli, Sharon Roos, Frank Orrall, Skip Fulton Jr., Abra Moore, Lori Capp, Gus Vayas, Janelle Coolich, Aleister Barron, Albans Benchoff, Nigel Benchoff, Zara Barron, Kevin Whitley, Steven Anderson, Robert Pierson, Sarah Harmon, David Haymond, John Slate, Scott Van Horn, Lee Daniel, Charles Gunning, Tamsy Ringler, Luke Savisky, Meg Brennan, Phillip Hostak, D. Angus MacDonald, Shelly Kristaponis, Louis Mackey, Kathy McCarty, Michael Laird, Jack Meredith, Clark Walker, Kalman Spelletich, Siqgouri Wilkovich, John Hawkins, Scott Rhodes, D. Montgomery, Mimi Vitetta, Susannah Simone, Keith Fletcher, Eric Buehlman, R. Malice, Mark Quirk, Kim Krizan, Annick Souhami, Regina Garza, Stephen Jacobson, Eric Lord, Kelly Linn, Rachael Reinhardt, Stewart Bennet, Kevin Thomson, Nick Maffei, Nolan Morrison, Kyle Rosenblad, Ed Hall, Lucinda Scott, Wammo, Marianne Hyatt, Gary Price, Joseph Jones, Kendall Smith, Sean Coffey, Jennifer Carrol, Charlotte Norris, Patrice Sullivan, Greg Ward, Mike Enright, Robert Jacks
• Director: Richard Linklater
• Runtime: 1:40
• Company: Criterion
• Media Format: movie