Slacker

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Call Number: DVD Comedy Slacker
On Shelf At: Traverwood Branch

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Special features: Audio commentaries featuring Richard Linklater and members of the cast and crew; It's impossible to learn to plow by reading books (1988), Linklater's first full length feature, with commentary by Linklater; rare casting tapes featuring select "auditions" from the over one hundred member cast; deleted scenes and on-set footage; footage from the Slacker 10th Anniversary Reunion in Austin, Texas in 2001; original theatrical trailer; stills gallery featuring hundreds of rare behind-the-scenes production and publicity photos, and early script versions; booklet featuring reviews, essays, production notes, an introduction to Plow by director Monte Hellmann, an essay by John Pierson and a complete cast and crew listing; RSDL dual-layer edition.
Richard Linklater, Rudy Basquez, Jean Caffeine, Jan Hockey, Stephan Hockey.
Richard Linklater's Slacker presents a day in the life of a subculture of marginal, eccentric, and overeducated citizens in and around the University of Texas; a prescient look at an emerging generation of aggressive nonparticipants.
DVD, region 1 ; Full screen 1.33:1 aspect ratio; Dolby Digital stereo.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

Should Have Stayed At The Bus Station submitted by jaegerla on March 7, 2011, 10:18am Kevin Smith listed this as the most influential movie on his own film-making career, and the similarities between the Austinites and Smith’s New Jersyers are striking. Each group consists of 20-30 somethings, all within the same city, all loosely connected. Each of the characters are extremely knowledgeable, even if their expertise is limited to Kennedy’s assassination or the Star Wars trilogy. These characters are happy to share their insights with their friends, acquaintances, and anonymous passersby. Each group is also blissfully unaware of how little interest other people have in their knowledgebase yet they share it relentlessly. But aside from a creating a cast of eccentrics, Linklater and Smith go opposite directions with their storylines. Smith delves into slapstick while Linklater’s film doesn’t come out and tell you when to laugh or when the movie is making a real point. It is up to you to figure out what these people are all about. It’s almost impossible not to like this movie.