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Barcelona |
Two cousins desperately clinging to their ethnocentric beliefs while
dating beautiful women in Barcelona.
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Barfly |
"I can't stand people. I hate them." "Yeah." "You hate them?"
"No, but I seem to feel better when they're not around." (1987)
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Before Sunrise |
A wondrous night in Vienna
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The Big Lebowski |
Not one of the Coen Brothers best movies, but it belongs on this list
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The Blair Witch Project |
Slackers finally get their own horror movie.
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Bottle Rocket |
"How about next time we rob your parents' house?!" (1996)
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Box of Moonlight |
A week of slacking as a cure for a mid-life crisis.
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Buffalo '66 |
"If you make a fool out of me, I swear to god I'll kill you. Boom!
Right in front of Mommy and Daddy. And I'll tell you something else...If
you make me look bad, I will never ever talk to you again. Ever."(1998)
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Chasing Amy |
Kevin Smith gets it all together in this lesson about love.
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Clerks |
"You over compensate for having what's basically a monkey's job."
(1994)
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Cold Fever |
"Sometimes a journey can take you to a place that is not on any
map."(1995)
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Dazed and Confused |
"I think they're just afraid that some of us might be having too
good a time." (1993)
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Dead Man |
"William Blake, it's so strange that you don't remember any of your
poetry." (1995)
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The Doom Generation |
Don't let the title and box cover fool you into renting
this movie.
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Down By Law |
"You can't live in the present forever." (1986)
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Drugstore Cowboy |
"Deep down, I knew we could never win. We played a game we could
never win." (1989)
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Five Easy Pieces |
"One thing I find very difficult to imagine is that one
could have this incredible background in music, and then just walk away
from it without giving it a second thought." "I gave it a second thought."
(1970)
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Floundering |
"Our problem is that there is a complete difference between understanding
an idea and actualizing change in your life. You know that's the killer."
(1994)
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Friday |
All day in the hood spent on the front porch.
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The Full Monty |
Desperate times lead to desperate measures.
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Georgia |
A young woman living in the dark, dark shadow of her talented sister.
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Ghost World |
Slacker comic book comes to the big screen.
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Glory Daze |
A dull comedy about five art school slackers.
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Go |
Grocery clerks, XTC, TV cops, drugs, strippers, drugs, guns, drug dealers,
and drugs. How can you go wrong?
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Henry Fool |
Dark comedy about the desire to lead a remarkable life
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High Fidelity |
Everyone who keeps writing to me about how great 'Capital Records' is, should see this movie ...and leave me alone!
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Highway 61 |
"How will it affect Pokey Jones the barber?" (1992)
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The Hustler |
A classic movie about a pool hustler. Real slacking here.
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Igby Goes Down |
A Georgetown teenager does his best to frustrate his mother's plans for his success.
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Kicked in the Head |
A young man trying to find his destiny as revealed by a fortune cookie.
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Kicking and Screaming |
"Eight hours ago I was Max Belmont, English Major, College Senior.
Now I am Max Belmont, who does nothing." (1995)
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Kids |
This movie will make you worry about the ones you have, or never want
to have them.
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La Haine (Hate) |
I know I said no French movies, but this one is too good to exclude.
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The Last Picture Show |
Young men living a dreary existence in a dying Texas town.
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Liquid Sky |
Aliens meet junkie lesbian slackers
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Living in Oblivion |
Low-budget movie making hell.
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London Kills Me |
A junkie's quest for good shoes and a better life.
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Mallrats |
"I prefer ritual suicide." (1995)
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Metropolitan |
"I guess you could say it's extremely vulgar. I like it a lot!"
(1990)
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Muriel's Wedding |
ABBA obsessed Aussie lass just wants to get married.
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My Own Private Idaho |
"It is no sin for a man to labour at his vocation." (1991)
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My New Gun |
A broad Freudian exercise.
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Mystery Train |
"To be eighteen...feels cool...and so far from Yokohama. It
feels cool to be in Memphis." (1989)
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Naked |
A depressing portrait of a desperate wretch intent on defiling and
poisoning every life he comes in contact with.
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A Night On Earth |
God's flashlight.
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Office Space |
This movie runs out of steam, but the first half is worth the cost of renting it.
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Palookaville |
Another movie about slackers bumbling their way through a robbery.
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The Pope of Greenwich Village |
"Charlie, they took my thumb, man." (1984)
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Reality Bites |
"I'll tell you the problem with your generation. You don't have any
work ethic." (1994)
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Repo Man |
"What do you have in the trunk?"..."Oh...You don't want to look
in there." (1984)
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Roadside Prophets |
Two guys, two motorcycles, and a parade of cameos.
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Rushmore |
"We're putting you on what we call 'Sudden Death Academic Probation'
" (1998)
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Say Anything |
John Cusack finds out if true love is the true measure of a man.
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Sid and Nancy |
"When I'm dead will you miss me?"..."I couldn't live without you."
(1986)
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Simple Men |
Self-indulgent and stiffly acted. Two slackers looking for their outlaw
father.
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Singles |
Hollywood tries to attract the slacker audience.
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Slacker |
" I should have stayed at the bus station! " (1991)
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SLC Punk |
Don't be fooled by the title, this movie is a poser.
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Smoke |
See this over and over again.
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Smoke Signals |
I believe this is the first Native American geek I have seen in a movie.
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Stranger Than Paradise |
"It's funny. You come to someplace new and everything just
looks the same." (1984)
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SubUrbia |
A kind of slacker purgatory.
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Swingers |
"You're so money, and you don't even know it!" (1996)
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A Thousand Clowns |
"Nick, in a moment you're going to see a horrible thing." "What's
that?" "People going to work!" (1965)
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Trainspotting |
"We would have injected vitamin C if only they had made it illegal."
(1996)
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Trees Lounge |
A funny portrait of a degenerating barfly.
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What's Eating Gilbert Grape |
Johnny Depp as a young man stuck in a small town because of his responsibilities
to his family.
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Whatever |
Senior high school student dealing with feelings of alienation and
inadequacy in the eighties.
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Y tu mamá también |
A Mexican film dealing with young men, lust for life, and sex, that is better and more mature than any recent American film on the subject. |
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Yellow |
Korean-American slackers on grad night. And Margaret Cho ain't even in it.
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