Synopsis
The adventures of a group of Texas teens on their last day of school in 1976, centering on student Randall Floyd, who moves easily among stoners, jocks and geeks. Floyd is a star athlete, but he also likes smoking weed, which presents a conundrum when his football coach demands he sign a "no drugs" pledge.
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Cast
- Jason LondonRandall "Pink" Floyd
- Joey Lauren AdamsSimone Kerr
- Matthew McConaugheyDavid Wooderson
- Rory CochraneRon Slater
- Milla JovovichMichelle Burroughs
- Shawn AndrewsKevin Pickford
- Adam GoldbergMike Newhouse
- Anthony RappTony Olson
- Sasha JensonDon Dawson
- Marissa RibisiCynthia Dunn
Recommendations
- 100
Rolling Stone
Linklater is a sly and formidable talent, bringing an anthropologist's eye to this spectacularly funny celebration of the rites of stupidity. His shitfaced "American Graffiti" is the ultimate party movie -- loud, crude, socially irresponsible and totally irresistible. - 100
Austin Chronicle
One of the most exciting movies of this, or any other, year. It's smart, funny, and wonderfully crafted and performed. - 90
Washington Post
Richard Linklater's satirical take on high school life in the 1970s is not only funny and entertaining. It's practically a historic document of life during the smiley-face button era. - 75
Chicago Sun-Times
This is a good film, but it would not cheer people up much at a high school reunion. - 70
The New York Times
Dazed and Confused has an enjoyably playful spirit, one that amply compensates for its lack of structure. [24 Sept 1993, p.C12] - 70
Time
But it also has enough buoyant '70s music to shake anybody's tail feather, and a kind of easy jubilance of narrative and character. Bet it makes you wanna dance. [11 Oct 1993] - 60
Variety
One-liners and dry sight gags still abound, but the ennui-sodden formlessness of "Slacker" doesn't fly as well in this $ 6 million, smoothly lensed package, which calls for shapelier narrative and resolution. - 60
TV Guide Magazine
Expertly captures the details and textures of the time without condescending or lapsing into cheap-shot parody.
