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Year of Release : 1994
Genre                  :  Comedy
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Latest Work        :  Slacker (2004)

Another of those directors belonging to the ultra fertile decade of 90s, Linklater left his education and went to Mexico to work on an offshore oil rig. He subsequently came back, started a film club and made a short experimental film - " It's impossible to learn to plow by reading books." Three years later he made his debut feature Slacker. Again, made on 16mm because of want of funds, the film didn't have a single professional actor. Instead Linklater went on an interview spree and hired real life characters including himself. Shot on location in Texas with a humble budget of $23,000, it was nominated for Grand Jury Prize - Dramatic at the Sundance Film Festival in 1991 and has gone on to become a cult film. It would also later on act as one of the big inspirations for director Kevin Smith and his Clerks. "Slacker" on the other hand became a much-overused catch-all tag employed to affix a name and identity to America's disaffected youth culture.

Richard Linklater

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