Wednesday, May 24, 2023

Dazed and Confused (1993)

 'Dazed and Confused' is a slice of life, almost documentary style film from Richard Linkletter, who is principly known for films of this sort. The movie chronicles various suburban Austin teens at the start of the summer of 1976. There's a lot of hijinks, romantic longing and driving around, making it much like 'American Griffiti' but for late Boomers rather the The Silent Generation. Large cast includes many recognizable names early in their careers including Ben Afflick, Milla Jovovich, Adam Goldberg, Parker Posey and famously Matthew McConoughy whose performance is three kinds of all right. Generally likeable it is not much on plot, this is essentially a hang out movie and probably improves on rewatch. ***

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