Synopsis
Dave, Sam and Jeff are about to graduate from Holden University with honors in lying, cheating and scheming. The three roommates have proudly scammed their way through the last four years of college and now, during final exams, these big-men-on-campus are about to be busted by the most unlikely dude in school. Self-dubbed Cool Ethan, an ambitious nerd with a bad crush, enters their lives one day and everything begins to unravel.
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Cast
- Devon SawaDave Goodman
- Jaime KingAngela Patton
- Jason SegelSam Schechter
- Jason SchwartzmanEthan Dulles
- Laura PreponReanna
- Michael C. MaronnaJeff Davis
- Cameron DiazCameron Diaz
- Jim RashHead T.A. Philip
- RettaBruna
- Gedde WatanabeJapanese Proctor
Recommendations
- 38
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Before immediately handing the movie an F and sending it off to summer school, give the filmmakers, and especially co-star Jason Schwartzman, credit for their anarchic willingness to try anything to shock a laugh loose from an audience. - 38
New York Post
So patchy in its laughs, so calculated in its grossness and so lacking in genuine comic exuberance, it makes you look at "Road Trip" in an admiring new light. - 33
Portland Oregonian
A disappointing venture. If only it had been more clever, perhaps darker. - 25
San Francisco Chronicle
A discordant comedy that gives bad taste a bad name. - 25
New York Daily News
Slackers depends on the pathetic Ethan and the flatulent Sam for most of its laughs, and both characters are more revolting than amusing. - 20
TV Guide Magazine
The gags are familiar collegiate stuff, involving horny young men, horny old whores -- horny young tramps -- silly foreigners, uptight authority figures, homosexuals and sassy fat women. - 20
Film Threat
The title not only describes its main characters, but the lazy people behind the camera as well. - 10
Washington Post
How bad is it? Let me count just some of the ways.
