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Dazed and Confused
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Richard Linklater's DAZED AND CONFUSED takes a hysterical, nostalgic cross-clique look at high school social development. On the last...
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Richard Linklater's DAZED AND CONFUSED takes a hysterical, nostalgic cross-clique look at high school social development. On the last day of school in May 1976, students at a suburban Texas high school wait, lackadaisically, for classes to end. The restless almost-seniors--an eclectic group of stone-heads, fraternal jocks, and snobby sorority girls--can't wait to haze the incoming freshman, an annual event as harrowing for freshman boys as it is humiliating for girls. Amidst this teenage wasteland of drugs, partying, and rock and roll is football star Pink (Jason London), who saves scrawny pre-frosh Mitch (Wiley Wiggins) from being paddled to oblivion by upper-classmates. But Pink has his own battles: he's struggling over the head coach's demand that football players sign a pledge to abstain from sex and all psychoactive substances. When a wild end-of-the-year party is cancelled, the students end up congregating at a beer-blast in the back woods, organized by aging hang-about Wooderson (Matthew McConaugh...
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| Key Information | |
| Stars | Jason London, Joey Lauren Adams, Matthew McConaughey, Rory Cochrane, Wiley Wiggins |
| Actors | Adam Goldberg, Anthony Rapp, Ben Affleck, Marissa Ribisi, Michelle Burke, Milla Jovovich, Parker Posey, Sasha Jensen |
| Available Formats | DVD: 2-Disc Set, DVD: Flashback Edition; Full Frame, DVD: Flashback Edition; Widescreen, DVD: Widescreen, VHS |
| UPC | 025192027727, 025192544828, 025192544927, 096898149532, 715515018425 |
| Directors | Richard Linklater |
| Genre | Comedies |
| Subgenre | Independent • Recommended • Friends • Coming Of Age • 1970s • Teenagers • High School Students • High School Experiences • Essential Cinema |
| MPAA Rating | R (MPAA) |
| Release Date | 1993 |
| Running Time | 1hr 43min |
| Languages | |
| Original Language | English |
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| Credits | |
| Screenwriter | Richard Linklater |
| Professional Reviews | |
| Professional Reviews | (04/01/2000, p.160, Owen Gleiberman): Ranked #9 in Entertainment Weekly's "10 Favorite Films of the '90s" - "...The freest, most graceful comedy of American teenage life ever made...", (06/21/1993, Ken Eisner): "...Giddily amusing...", (07/01/2006, p.102, Aaron Hillis): "[T]he dialogue is hilariously quotable, the period textures are precise and hardly parodic....[and with a] soundtrack dialing from Aerosmith to ZZ Top.", (08/01/2003, p.128, Daniel Webb): "...No movie understands the agony and ecstasy of teenage life better than Richard Linklater's underrated classic...", (09/24/1993, p.35, Roger Ebert): "...This is a good film...", (09/24/1993, p.C12, Janet Maslin): "...DAZED AND CONFUSED unfolds in a loose, natural style that suits its teenage characters....Enjoyably playful spirit...", (10/01/1994, p.39-40, Ben Thompson): "...[A] vibrantly laid-back comedy....A tightly bound ensemble of funny and believable adolescent...", (11/01/2004, p.101, Chris Cronis): "[It] remains the loose-limbed, thoroughly entertaining trip it was when it was released..." |
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