Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #15298 in DVD
• Released on: 2008-09-29
• Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
• Format: PAL
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 96 minutes

Synopsis
SLACKER, a unique slice-of-life series of linked but barely related episodes, follows the socially disconnected, overly educated, and barely motivated denizens of the coffeehouses, clubs, bars, apartments, stores, and streets of the college town of Austin, Texas. Richard Linklater's debut feature is a cult sensation that launched a thousand imitators, replete with garrulous, too-cool twenty-somethings debating pop culture phenomena, none of which can match the spacey, floating-camera timbre of the original.

Customer Reviews

Worthy of note, and culturally significant, but it hasn't aged well.
Having watched Waking Life, and many cult indie suburban youth films (Brick, Donnie Darko etc.) I was hoping for this Richard Linklater film to be a worthy addition. And it is to a large extent. The concept is fantastic, each little skit is intruiging and well-linked. The acting is also very good, obviously by people who are probably similar to the characters film in their real lives. The emphasis on slacker culture is a great theme for the film, which it covers well in many aspects.

My only real criticism of this DVD, is that the film has really not aged well, being a lo-fi work of cinema to begin with. Perhaps a great document to the late 80s and early 90s, some of the activities of the characters seem a tad hackneyed, or a bit too out there to apply to now, but then again, who says a film should? However, to the modern viewer, such as me (1 in 1991) who has grown up with high-fidelity films, and loves to see a film age well (Deliverance, Mad Max, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest), something coming from 1991 perhaps should be a look a bit less "Diagnosis Murder".

However, the film remains enjoyable but flawed, and is probably more applicable to American 30-somethings - I did enjoy the film, I just prefer Waking Life.