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Tape (2001) Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke, Robert Sean Leonard, Uma Thurman
A three-character ensemble piece set within the confines of a tawdry motor lodge in Lansing, Michigan. Read More »
Before Sunrise (1995) Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Andrea Eckert, Drama, Romance
American tourist Jesse and French student Celine meet by chance on the train from Budapest to Vienna. Read More »
Slacker (1991) Richard Linklater, Rudy Basquez, Jean Caffeine, Comedy, Drama
Presents a day in the life in Austin, Texas among its social outcasts and misfits, predominantly the twenty-something set, using a series of linear vignettes. These characters, who in some manner just don’t fit into the establishment norms, move seamlessly from one scene to the next, randomly coming and going into one another’s lives. Highlights include a UFO buff who adamantly insists that the U.S. has been on the moon since the 1950s, a woman who produces a glass slide purportedly of Madonna’s pap smear, and an old anarchist who sympathetically shares his philosophy of life with a robber.
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Dazed and Confused (1993) Richard Linklater, Jason London, Wiley Wiggins, Matthew McConaughey, Comedy
It’s the last day of school at a high school in a small town in Texas in 1976. The upperclassmen are hazing the incoming freshmen, and everyone is trying to get stoned, drunk, or laid, even the football players that signed a pledge not to.
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Bernie (2011) Richard Linklater, Jack Black, Shirley MacLaine, Matthew McConaughey, Comedy, Crime, Drama
We meet Bernie Tiede (1958- ), a chubby undertaker, who takes pride in his work. He’s a Gospel-singing tenor. In a series of interviews with townspeople, mixed with flashbacks, we follow Bernie: he arrives in Carthage, Texas (pop. 7,000), where old ladies adore him; he befriends a wealthy, mean-spirited widow named Marjorie Nugent; they become companions in both daily routines and expensive vacations. Among those interviewed, only her stockbroker and Danny Buck, the local district attorney, are unsympathetic toward the sunny, sometimes saccharine Bernie. Marjorie changes from sour and alone to happy with Bernie; then she gets possessive. What will sweet Bernie do?
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