Slacker

Slacker

  • Director: Richard Linklater
  • Countries of origin: United States
  • Language: English
  • Release date: July 5, 1991
  • Sound mix: Ultra Stereo
  • Aspect ratio: 1.37 : 1
  • Also known as: Richard Linklater's Slacker
  • "Slacker-Criterion Collection" is a comedy directed by Richard Stuart Linklater, starring Richard Stuart Linklater and Rudy Basquez.
    The film tells the ordinary day of some homeless people in Austin and Texas.

    Details

    • Release date July 5, 1991
    • Filming locations Austin, Texas, USA
    • Production companies Detour Filmproduction

    Box office

    Budget

    $23,000 (estimated)

    Gross US & Canada

    $1,228,108

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $24,307

    Gross worldwide

    $1,228,108

    Movie reviews

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    • By Adela 2022-02-16 08:03:06

      Unintentional Sprouting Potatoes


          After watching American independent film director Richard Linklater's feature film debut "Urban Ronin", I felt a little restless. The beautiful long lens kept flashing back in his mind. It was a bizarre incident that exuded a pale halo: the young man drove his mother to death and returned to his residence peacefully, waiting for the arrival of the police. The desolation of a person's heart easily attracts me to walk in, even though this is just a small chapter in this casual and...

    • By Lowell 2022-02-16 08:03:06

      Ok

      A film that is completely anti-narrative and anti-plot is a good film of a specific type. "Urban Ronin" tells about all kinds of people in this city, they have different ideas. This conceptual expression is a summary of the director's thoughts, presenting the absurd aspects of life and the interrelationship between individuals. It is difficult to sort out specific expressions, but it only brings people a lot of thinking, and it takes patience and attention to the audience of literary and...

    • By Brandt 2022-02-16 08:03:06

      Urban Ronin

      At the beginning of the film, a young man (played by Richard Linklater Richard Linklater) narrates his weird dream to the driver in a taxi, as well as the possibility of him getting in the taxi, but the driver doesn’t care. . The young man got out of the car and saw a woman lying on the ground in a car accident. He took the woman's handbag. The woman was killed by her son, and two police officers took the son away from the house. Someone was playing guitar and singing in the street, and three...

    • By Nico 2022-02-16 08:03:06

      Beat generation

      From this movie’s return to reality, what can be seen is that the Beat generation shown on the big screen has faded away on the other side, but on this side it has been replicated by our new generation.

      They are smart, possess knowledge, master information, and enjoy unprecedented freedom and rich material life. At the same time, we really feel that their lives are not as happily as we were when they were children. Looking at the blogs of primary and secondary school students after...

    • By Sigurd 2022-02-16 08:03:06

      The story is not necessary

      "I want the movie to look real, like a flowing river."

      The director said. Watching the movie, you can really feel the weight of this sentence on the screen.

      Chinese audiences should be more familiar with Richard Linklater's "Love Before Dawn". His first feature film "Urban Ronin" made him an instant hit in the United States, and this low-cost independent...

    User comments

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    • By Melissa 2022-03-27 09:01:15

      A little boring, the transition is...

    • By Daija 2022-03-27 09:01:15

      Thinking is free, so think more and do less - 07/19/14 at Anthology Film...

    • By Miles 2022-03-27 09:01:15

      The necessary beauty in life is in giving yourself to it completely. Only later will clarify itself and become...

    • By Elbert 2022-03-27 09:01:15

      Love was brewing before the trilogy, haha. The content of the broken thoughts seems to be loose and disorganized, but in fact, it restores the real life and the real society, and uses the language full of wisdom and philosophy. The events and conversations of the second person are passed from the first person to the third and fourth. . . Endless and quite creative. RL's words are really endearing. Each topic expresses his opinion in a few sentences. It is not eloquent but intriguing and...

    • By Camron 2022-03-26 09:01:11

      I can understand, and even like, a movie that relies entirely on dialogue. But no plot? ? ? Director Lin's feature film debut is too avant-garde and independent! I personally decided to rename it "Long Picture Scroll of Unemployed Youth Groups in Small Towns in Texas". It still has a sense of life, but most of the dialogues are one-man shows. One side talks non-stop and the other side is just a listener. I don’t know if it’s Director Lin’s intention...

    Movie plot

    "Slacker-Criterion Collection" shows an ordinary day of some wanderers in Austin and Texas, using straight-line photography to present a state of inadaptability and non-domination without a specific plot. The characters in the film come and go on the street, express or hear all kinds of high opinions, and they often have unexpected behaviors. For example, in a place similar to a TV station, a person is carrying a small stool on his...
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    Evaluation action

    The content of the film has a wide range of factors, covering most of the social issues and urban phenomena in the United States. What's interesting is that in a bar, a boy smiled and said to two art-loving girls: "I am not an artist, I am an anti-artist." This is the best interpretation of the unique artistic style of this film. Surreal movies have always relied on exaggerated image styles to attract audiences. Since Cocteau and FeFe...
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    Movie quotes

    • Video Interviewer: So, did you vote in the most recent election?

      Hitchhiker: Hell, no... I've got less important things to do.

    • Dostoyevsky Wannabe: Who's ever written a great work about the immense effort required in order not to create?

    • Has Faith in Groups: You know, that's what I hate: when you start talking like this, like you just pull in these things from the shit you read, and you haven't thought it out for yourself, no bearing on the world around us, and totally unoriginal.

      Based on Authoritative Sources: Okay, great. Personal attacks now, is that it? I thought we were beyond that.

      Has Faith in Groups: It's like you just pasted together these bits and pieces from your "authoritative sources." I don't know. I'm beginning to suspect there's nothing really in there.

      Based on Authoritative Sources: Suspect? You're beginning to suspect? Oh, that's rich, that's really rich. So what? At least what is there, is based on good sources.