FREE: Dazed & Confused [VHS] (1993)

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You remember high school? Really remember? If you think you do, watch this film: it'll all really come racing back. After changing the world with the generation-defining Slacker, director Richard Linklater turned his free-range vérité sensibility on the 1970s. As before, his all-seeing camera meanders across a landscape studded with goofy pop culture references and poignant glimpses of human nature. Only this time around, he's spreading a thick layer of nostalgia over the lens (and across the soundtrack). It's as if Fast Times at Ridgemont High was directed by Jean-Luc Godard. The story deals with a group of friends on the last day of high school, 1976. Good-natured football star Randall "Pink" Floyd navigates effortlessly between the warring worlds of jocks, stoners, wannabes, and rockers with girlfriend and new-freshman buddy in tow. Surprisingly, it's not a coming-of-age movie, but a film that dares ask the eternal, overwhelming, adolescent question, "What happens next?" It's a little too honest to be a light comedy (representative quote: "If I ever say these were the best years of my life, remind me to kill myself."). But it's also way too much fun (remember souped-up Corvettes and bicentennial madness?) to be just another existential-essay-on-celluloid. --Grant Balfour

Actors: Jason London, Wiley Wiggins, Matthew McConaughey, Rory Cochrane, Sasha Jenson
Directors: Richard Linklater
Writers: Richard Linklater
Producers: Richard Linklater, Anne Walker-McBay, James Jacks, Sean Daniel
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC
Rated: R (Restricted)
Number of tapes: 1
Studio: Universal Studios
VHS Release Date: January 17, 1995
Run Time: 102 minutes