Rent Slacker (1990)
3.2 of 5 from 100 ratings
1h 40min
- General info
- Available formats
- Synopsis:
- Linklater's breakout second film is an utterly unique series of loosely interweaved episodes shining a delightfully off-beat light on a parade of socially disconnected, overly educated, and barely motivated citizens in Austin Texas. In coffeehouses, clubs, bars, apartments, stores, and streets of the college town, life's strange quirks, odd foibles and disruptive inanities come astonishingly to life. Linklater's film remains a cult sensation that launched a thousand imitators. But none of the effusive 20-somethings littering the casts of 1990s US independent cinema can hold a candle to those of this hilarious and vibrant true original.
- Actors:
- Richard Linklater, Rudy Basquez, Jean Caffeine, Jan Hockey, Stephan Hockey, Mark James, Samuel Dietert, Bob Boyd, Terrence Kirk, Keith McCormack, Jennifer Schaudies, Dan Kratochvil, Maris Strautmanis, Brecht Andersch, Tommy Pallotta, Jerry Delony, Heather West, John Spath, Ron Marks, Daniel Dugan
- Directors:
- Richard Linklater
- Producers:
- Richard Linklater
- Voiced By:
- Robert Jacks
- Writers:
- Richard Linklater
- Aka:
- Richard Linklater's Slacker
- Studio:
- Metrodome
- Genres:
- Comedy
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 17/06/2024
- Run Time:
- 100 minutes
- Languages:
- English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0
- Subtitles:
- English Hard of Hearing
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Full Screen 1.37:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- 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 full-length feature, with commentary by the director
- Woodshock, a 1985 16 mm short by Linklater and Daniel
- Casting tapes featuring select "auditions" from the more-than-100-member cast
- Deleted scenes and alternate takes
- 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
- Original theatrical trailer
