The adventures of a group of Texas teens on their last day of school in 1976, centering on student Randall Floyd, who moves easily among stoners, jocks and geeks. Floyd is a star athlete, but he also likes smoking weed, which presents a conundrum when his football coach demands he sign a "no drugs" pledge.
Jason London
Pink
Matthew McConaughey
Wooderson
Joey Lauren Adams
Simone
Rory Cochrane
Slater
Wiley Wiggins
Mitch
Adam Goldberg
Mike
Anthony Rapp
Tony
Sasha Jenson
Don
Shawn Andrews
Pickford
Milla Jovovich
Michelle
Ben Affleck
O'Bannion
Marissa Ribisi
Cynthia
Michelle Burke
Jodi
Deena Martin
Shavonne
Cole Hauser
Benny
Christine Harnos
Kaye
Mark Vandermeulen
Tommy
Esteban Powell
Carl
Jeremy Fox
Hirschfelder
Jason O. Smith
Melvin
Christin Hinojosa
Sabrina
Parker Posey
Darla
Catherine Morris
Julie
Nicky Katt
Clint
Parker Brooks
Stoner
Zach Taylor
Freshman Smartass
Jacob Jones
Freshman Smartass
Rick Moser
Assistant Coach
Terry Mross
Coach Conrad
Kim Krizan
Ms. Stroud
Zooey Greif
Pentico
Julius Tennon
Mr. Payne
Priscilla Kinser
Freshman Girl
Erika Geminder
Freshman Girl
Heidi Van Horne
Freshman Girl
Katherine Asher
Carl's Mom
Kathleen Cunningham
Pickford's Mom
Richard Dillard
Pickford's Dad
John Swasey
Beer Delivery Guy
Zeke Mills
Old Timer
Michael Gillespie
Party Guy
Tom Hoeck
Chaperone
Fred Lerner
Guy with Pistol
David Blackwell
Liquor Store Clerk
Autumn Barr
Stacy
Doug Taylor
Cop
Bob Moser
Cop
Mona Lee Fultz
Mitch's Mother
Chris M. Allport
Student (uncredited)
Rose Barrett
Pink's Sister (uncredited)
Tara Battani
Party Girl (uncredited)
Adam Boster
Booger (uncredited)
Josh Caldwell
Guy at Party (uncredited)
Nicole Emmons
Girl in Pool Hall (uncredited)
Mike Enright
Guy at Party (uncredited)
Chris Green
O'Bannion's Pool Partner (uncredited)
Karey Green
Senior Girl (uncredited)
KaiCarra
Girl in Bikini (uncredited)
Jessica Looney
Senior Girl (uncredited)
Renée Zellweger
Girl in Blue Truck (uncredited)
Anthony Pedone
Parking Lot Kid (uncredited)
Ted Perez
Guy at School / Guy at Party (uncredited)
Damian Tamburro
Student (uncredited)
Chris Western
Smoking Hippie (uncredited)
James 'Kimo' Wills
Guy at Party (uncredited)
Heath Young
Student (uncredited)
Director, Writer
Richard Linklater
January 9, 2015
**for so long its not true**
I only saw it once. I dare not watch this again. For some reason it was playing at a dingy burlesque-haunted cinema on old Granville Street in Vancouver on a Sunday afternoon in 1993 where wasted men usually shuffle in to deposit their sperm. (Not enough credit goes to internet porn for cleaning up the streets). Richard Linkater wasn't a story at the time. The guy who made Slackers. The bastard love child of Jim Jarmusch and Chrissie Hynde for all I knew. No clue he'd be the chosen one to eventually deliver us to _Boyhood_. I went in with a friend on a lark and floated out on a psilocybin cloud of joy. I was awestruck. I know these guys! I wanted to endlessly sing its praises but my friend didn't get the same charge out of it. (Although months later at a Christmas party of wayward misfits, he couldn't stop playing the sound track). Maybe it was me. But this was exactly how I remembered High School in the 70's. Was I hallucinating the whole thing? Indeed I was stoned much of the time, but all that was brilliantly accounted for. All that was missing was a bit of Pink Floyd and a whole lot of Led Zeppelin as alluded to in the title. _Dazed & Confused_ isn't merely the best movie about High School in the 1970's. It is the best movie about High School, and the best movie about the 1970's, and perhaps the best movie about male adolescence (yes, yes, IMHO, of course, what else). I dare not watch it again for what if I burst the bubble of such virgin memories to forever spoil my love and admiration for it. Or was it the dingy cinema I have fond nostalgic feelings for? Something. I'll have to watch it again, probably soon, once Linklater finally gets the grand red-carpet treatment along with the golden trinkets he so long deserves.
Status:
Released
Original Language:
English
Budget:
$6,900,000.00
Revenue:
$8,259,076.00