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Slacker 19903/25/2023 Slacker is the only one I know of that claims this city's version of life on the margins of the working world as its whole subject, and it is one of the first American movies ever to find a form so apropos to the themes of disconnectedness and cultural drift". In his review for the Austin Chronicle, Chris Walters wrote, "Few of the many films shot in Austin over the past 10 or 15 years even attempt to make something of the way its citizens live. Linklater has the gift of a true satirist: He can make laughter catch in the throat". Rolling Stone 's Peter Travers wrote, "What Linklater has captured is a generation of bristling minds unable to turn their thoughts into action. In his review for the Washington Post, Hal Hinson wrote, "This is a work of scatterbrained originality, funny, unexpected and ceaselessly engaging". the movie never loses its affectionate, shaggy-dog sense of America as a place in which people, by now, have almost too much freedom on their hands". Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly gave the film an "A−" rating, writing, " Slacker has a marvelously low-key observational cool. In his review for The New York Times, Vincent Canby wrote, " Slacker is a 14-course meal composed entirely of desserts or, more accurately, a conventional film whose narrative has been thrown out and replaced by enough bits of local color to stock five years' worth of ordinary movies". He wants to show us a certain strata of campus life at the present time". Roger Ebert gave the film three out of four stars and wrote, " Slacker is a movie with an appeal almost impossible to describe, although the method of the director, Richard Linklater, is as clear as day. The cast includes many notable Austinites, including Louis Black, Abra Moore, and members of some local bands of the era. It did not receive a wide release but went on to become a cult film bringing in a domestic gross of $1.2 million ($2.16 million in today's dollars ). Orion Classics acquired Slacker for nationwide distribution, and released a slightly modified 35mm version on July 5, 1991. The film was shot in 1989 with a 16 mm Arriflex camera on location in Austin, Texas with a budget of $23,000 ($44,000 in today's dollars ), and premiered at Austin's Dobie Theater on July 27, 1990. Slacker 's working title was No Longer/Not Yet.
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