Slacker (1991) is an American independent film written and directed by Richard Linklater. It follows a day in the life of a group of young, eccentric people in Austin, Texas, as they engage in ...

The last time I saw a comedy as mean-spirited, misogynistic and flat-out stupid as "Slackers," it was titled with the word "Porky's" and a number. It may be a mistake on my part: Perhaps the movie ...

“Slackers,” not to be confused with Richard Linklater’s innovative 1991 “Slacker,” is a standard issue undergrad gross-out comedy notable only for the showy role it provides Jason Schwartzman, ...

Adam Chitwood is a former Managing Editor at Collider, where he covered film and television with a focus on interviews, features, and industry analysis. Richard Linklater is one of the more versatile ...

“Slackers” at least starts off with momentum. As a grandiose string version of The Who’s “Baba O’Riley” plays in the background, three college students pull off an equally well-orchestrated cheating ...

Richard Linklater has been preoccupied with dropout culture since the earliest days of his career: in the loopy Slacker (1991) and the larky Dazed and Confused (1993) he developed archetypal ...