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<text id=91TT1696>
<title>
July 29, 1991: View Points:Cinema
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
July 29, 1991 The World's Sleaziest Bank
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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VIEW POINTS, Page 63
CINEMA
'90s Going on '60s
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<p>By Richard Corliss
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<p> Every summer needs an oddball movie, muttering happily to
itself in a forgotten corner of the superplex while the mega
budget pictures bat each other silly. So welcome to SLACKER, a
parade of all-American weirdos. Writer-director Richard
Linklater has borrowed the format of La Ronde--one character
talking to a second, the second to a third and so on--and
populated it with dozens of layabouts (slackers) in Austin.
These motor-mouth dropouts have decided on a life of independent
study: of the Kennedy assassination, or the space program (we've
been on Mars since 1962, colonizing the galaxy with financing
from the Medellin cartel), or Elvis (he's living in Las Vegas,
working as--what else?--an Elvis impersonator). The wildest
theories are received with a blissed-out smile. "Sorry I'm
late," somebody says; the reply is "That's O.K.--time doesn't
exist." Yes, it does. Though set in the '90s, Slacker has a
spirit that is pure '60s, and in this loping, loopy, sidewise,
delightful comedy, Austin is Haight-Ashbury.
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