Slacker
Slacker, directed by Richard Linklater, presents a day in the life of a loose-knit Austin, Texas, subculture populated by eccentric and overeducated young people. Shooting on 16 mm for a mere $23,000, writer-producer-director Linklater and his crew of friends threw out any idea of a traditional plot, choosing instead to create a tapestry of over a hundred characters, each as compelling as the last. Slacker is a prescient look at an emerging generation of aggressive nonparticipants, and one of the key films of the American independent film movement of the 1990s.
DIRECTOR-APPROVED BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- Restored high-definition digital film transfer, supervised by director Richard Linklater and director of photography Lee Daniel, with 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master audio soundtrack
- Three audio commentaries, featuring Linklater and members of the cast and crew
- It’s Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books (1988), Linklater’s first feature, with commentary by the director
- Woodshock (1985), a 16 mm short by Linklater and Daniel
- Casting tapes featuring select “auditions”
- Footage from the Slacker tenth-anniversary reunion
- Early film treatment
- Home movies
- Ten-minute trailer for a 2005 documentary about the landmark Austin café Les Amis
- Deleted scenes and alternate takes
- Trailer
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: a booklet featuring essays by author and filmmaker John Pierson and Sony Pictures Classics copresident Michael Barker; reviews by critics Ron Rosenbaum and Chris Walters; production notes by Linklater; and an introduction to It’s Impossible to Plow by Reading Books by director Monte Hellman
Cover by Marc English
DIRECTOR-APPROVED BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- Restored high-definition digital film transfer, supervised by director Richard Linklater and director of photography Lee Daniel, with 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master audio soundtrack
- Three audio commentaries, featuring Linklater and members of the cast and crew
- It’s Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books (1988), Linklater’s first feature, with commentary by the director
- Woodshock (1985), a 16 mm short by Linklater and Daniel
- Casting tapes featuring select “auditions”
- Footage from the Slacker tenth-anniversary reunion
- Early film treatment
- Home movies
- Ten-minute trailer for a 2005 documentary about the landmark Austin café Les Amis
- Deleted scenes and alternate takes
- Trailer
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: a booklet featuring essays by author and filmmaker John Pierson and Sony Pictures Classics copresident Michael Barker; reviews by critics Ron Rosenbaum and Chris Walters; production notes by Linklater; and an introduction to It’s Impossible to Plow by Reading Books by director Monte Hellman
Cover by Marc English
Cast
- Richard Linklater
- Should have stayed at the bus station
- Kathy McCarty
- Anarchist’s daughter
- Rudy Basquez
- Taxi driver
- Jean Caffeine
- Roadkill
- Jan Hockey
- Jogger
- Stephen Hockey
- Running late
- Mark James
- Hit-and-run son
- Sam Dietert
- Grocery grabber of death’s bounty
- Bob Boyd
- Officer Bozio
- Terrence Kirk
- Office Love
- Keith McCormack
- Street musician
- Jennifer Schaudies
- Walking to coffee shop
- Jerry Delony
- Been on the moon since the ’50s
- Teresa Taylor
- Pap smear pusher
- Dan Burrows
- Quotes Hitler
- John Slate
- Conspiracy A-Go-Go author
- Louis Mackey
- Old anarchist
- Kendal Smith
- Post-modern Paul Revere
- Regina Garza
- Smoking writer
Credits
- Director
- Richard Linklater
- Screenplay
- Richard Linklater
- Producer
- Richard Linklater
- Cinematography
- Lee Daniel
- Editing
- Scott Rhodes
- Production manager/casting
- Anne Walker-McBay
- Dolly grip/ assistant cameraman
- Clark Walker
- Sound
- Denise Montgomery
- Script supervisor
- Meg Brennan
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