Slacker (1991) is an American independent film directed by Richard Linklater. Linklater also wrote the screenplay and starred in the film. Slacker was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize - Dramatic at the Sundance Film Festival (1991).

The film was shot on location in Austin, Texas with a budget of $23,000. The movie released on July 5, 1991. It did not receive a wide release but went on to become a cult film bringing in a domestic gross of over $1,000,000. The movie released worldwide on DVD on January 13 2003. A two-disc special edition (which also included Linklater's first film, It's Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books, on DVD for the first time) was released on August 31, 2004 in the USA only.

Plot Summary

Through a series of vignettes, the film follows a day in the life of a group of twenty-something misfits who live in Austin. These social outcasts include a UFO buff who insists the U.S. has been on the moon since the 1950s, a conspiracy theorist who spouts about how many people were involved in killing JFK and a Madonna groupie among others. The characters come and go through each others lives throughout the movie.

References

• "Slacker." Internet Movie Database (IMDb). Retrieved Aug. 24, 2004.
• "Slacker." Box Office Mojo. Retrieved Aug. 24, 2004.