1990 - The Year Richard Linklater’s SLACKER Broke

Richard Linklater’s film SLACKER, made in Austin on a minuscule budget with a huge cast of local performers, is bound to be on anyone’s short list of most important Texas films, and is certainly the most Austin of all Austin movies. It was a national breakout hit - as these things go - and quite literally changed the national cultural dialogue in a lot of ways both substantial and trivial after it was released by Orion Classics in 1991. But, and this is the part of the story you may not have heard before,