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    Dazed and Confused (1993)

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    Some of Hollywood’s hottest young talent cut their teeth on this ultra-hip movie, among them Matthew McConaughey, Parker Posey, Milla Jovovich, Ben Affleck and Adam Goldberg. But it’s Jason London and Rory Cochrane who carry this freewheeling story, as a couple of high-school wasters on the last day of the summer term, not daring to look beyond the party in the woods that night.

    After giving voice to the disconnected youth of Austin, Texas, in his highly influential debut feature, Slacker, director Richard Linklater here defines the same generation as teenagers in 1976 – the year of the American Bicentennial.

    Employing a deceptively simple pseudo-documentary style, this is school daze à la Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982), as opposed to the nostalgic wallowings of such rose-tinted memoirs as American Graffiti (1973).

    This is teenage in the raw, with all the attendant angst, arrogance, aggression and amorousness. Every kid who was in your class is in here somewhere.

    Rarely have the attractions and distractions of killing time been so well presented. With a superb sense of period and a scorching soundtrack – Kiss, Alice Cooper et al – this honest and incisive portrait of the way we were is both funny and scary and ranks among the very best rock ‘n’ roll high-school movies.

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    Randy “Pink” Floyd
    Jason London
    Don Dawson
    Sasha Jenson
    Slater
    Rory Cochrane
    Mitch Kramer
    Wiley Wiggins
    Jodi Kramer
    Michelle Burke
    Pickford
    Shawn Andrews
    Tony
    Anthony Rapp
    Mike
    Adam Goldberg
    Sabrina
    Christin Hinojosa
    Michelle
    Milla Jovovich
    Wooderson
    Matthew McConaughey
    O’Bannion
    Ben Affleck
    Simone Kerr
    Joey Lauren Adams
    Cynthia
    Marissa Ribisi
    Benny
    Cole Hauser
    Darla
    Parker Posey
    Clint
    Nicky Katt

    Director
    Richard Linklater

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