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Slacker (1991) is an American independent film directed by Richard Linklater. Linklater also wrote the screenplay and starred in the film. Slacker was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize - Dramatic at the Sundance Film Festival (1991).
The film was shot on location in Austin, Texas with a budget of $23,000. The movie released on July 5, 1991. It did not receive a wide release but went on to become a cult film bringing in a domestic gross of over $1,000,000. The movie released on DVD on August 31, 2004.
The film follows a day in the life of a group of twenty-something misfits who live in Austin through a series of vignettes. These social outcasts include a UFO buff who insists the U.S. has been on the moon since the 1950s, a conspiracy theorist who spouts about how many people were involved in killing JFK and a Madonna groupie among others. The characters come and go through each others lives throughout the movie.