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Synopsis: 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.
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Director(s): Richard Linklater
Production: The Criterion Collection
  1 win & 3 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.1
Metacritic:
69
Rotten Tomatoes:
86%
R
Year:
1990
97 min
5,260 Views


We need to start all over again.

Let's put Larry Feynman in the history books.

Let's put Squeaky Fromme on the one-dollar bill.

At least we ought to get that Masonic pyramid bullshit off the back.

- And get some more beer? - Sounds good. Where to?

Uh, Cue Club? We only got 20 minutes.

Okay.

- Are you coming? - Nah, think I'm gonna catch that show.

Okay, you're either with us or against us.

Well, I guess I'm against you.

- Let's go. See you later. - All right. Good night.

See you guys later.

Man, there ain't no film in that sh*t.

I'm getting tired of this mobile home shoved up my ass

I think something else destroyed your greener grass

Witness nostalgia seems to be warbling in the throats

Every time I move it seems I barely miss that damn boat

Thank you. Good-bye. Thank you.

Show's over. Let's go.

It's past 2:
00. Everybody out.

Come on, get out. Hit the road. Strike the pavement. Get out of here.

Time to split. You gotta be somewhere.

You can't be here. And I wanna go home. Let's go.

You, passed out, wake up, get out of here!

Come on, let's go.

- Hey, what's up, man? - Not much.

- Whose are these? - They're mine.

Oh, yeah? Well, where you from?

- London, England. - Oh.

Yeah, she's traveling around Texas taking pictures of Dairy Queen.

Dairy Queens? What the hell you wanna do that for?

- Dip cones. - Dip cones?

Nah, I'm kidding. Actually, I'm on my way to New York.

New York, huh? Are you exhibiting there?

No, I'm just gonna do some stuff.

"Do some stuff. " The urban landscape guerrilla graffiti art scene.

The Soho photographer trudging through the sludge ofTimes Square...

shooting from the hip and catching the glimpses of all the garbage.

Working the streets basically. Going to New York just to work the

streets...

like everybody else there.

So, what, do you fancy yourself as some sort of artist, or what?

No, I'm an anti-artist.

Oh, one of those neoposeur types that hangs out in coffee shops...

and doesn't do much of anything, yeah.

No, I feel like being an anti-artist means that...

I like to destroy other people's artwork.

Oh, well. In that case.

No, I'm kidding. I don't do much really.

I just read and work here and sleep and eat...

and watch movies.

Speaking of movies, you being from London...

and being a photographer and all...

you might wanna watch Blow Up tonight at 4:00.

You know Blow Up, you know.

- London and the '60s. - See you later. - Bye.

Photographing and mimes playing tennis.

No, I'm really into photography, not movies.

But movies are photography, 24 times a second.

Did I invite you over here to talk to me?

When young, we mourn for one woman.

As we grow old, for women in general.

The tragedy of life...

is that man is never free...

yet strives for what can never be.

The thing most feared in secret...

always happens.

My life, my loves, what are they now?

But the more the pain grows...

the more this instinct for life somehow asserts itself.

The necessary beauty in life is in giving yourself to it completely.

- Wake up, America. - Only later will it clarify itself...

and become coherent.

Weapons give away program.

It's like one of those government programs.

Just come and f***in' get anything you want.

We're gonna give away all the f***in' automatic weapons.

All the side-loaders, clip-loaders, shoot-em-backs...

Saturday night specials...

Colt. 45s, shotguns.

Anything you want, chains, knives, straight razors...

bottles, brick bats, baseball bats...

and big kind of slanted jagged kind of things.

I wanna see a goddamn big motherfuckin'...

shoot 'em up, kill 'em, bang, stab 'em, crush...

slice, kill, motherfuckin' boilin' oil.

Catapults throwin' rocks and sh*t and blowin' up.

Undercover sh*t, yeah.

So I wanna see people putting secret things in f***in' cars...

and f***in' explodin' and see the people explodin'.

I wanna see knife cuttin', slice cuttin' choppin' and blowin' up.

Oh, yeah. That's right.

A free f***in' weapons give away program.

I see it. I'm gonna solve all these goddamn problems.

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