1990 · drama · comedy
Slacker
Directed by Richard Linklater1h 37m1990
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.
Our read: Slacker (1990) reads as a neutral, measured, inventive drama · comedy entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Neutral, measured, gentle drama / comedy, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- measured
- gentle
- inventive
- intimate
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