Dazed and Confused

Year: 1993
Country: USA
Running time: 94 mins
USA

Producers: James Jacks, Sean Daniel, Richard Linklater
Screenplay: Richard Linklater
Photography: Lee Daniel
Editor: Sandra Adair
Production designer: John Frick
Art director: Jenny C. Patrick
Costume designer: Katherine (K.D.) Dover
Sound: Jennifer McCauley

Cast
Pink: Jason London
Simone: Joey Lauren Adams
Michelle: Milla Jovovich
Pickford: Shawn Andrews
Slater: Rory Cochrane
Mike: Adam Goldberg
Tony: Anthony Rapp
Don: Sasha Jenson
Cynthia: Marissa Ribisi
Mitch: Wiley Wiggins
Carl: Esteban Powell
Hirshfelder: Jeremy Fox
O'Bannion: Ben Affleck

Festivals: Toronto, Vancouver, 1993
In the exhilarating Dazed and Confused, 31-year-old director Richard Linklater delivers what may be the most slyly funny and dead-on portrait of American teenage life ever made. Set in an unnamed Texas town on a single day in 1976, Dazed and Confused follows a pack of two-dozen teenagers as they celebrate the end of the school year by driving around, comsuming ridiculous amounts of beer and marijuana, playing pinball and Foosball, flirting and making out, participating in some rather bizarre hazing rites, and, finally, ending up at a woodside keg bash on the edge of town... Yet if the film's episodic, all-night-party structure harks back to American Graffiti, its documentary-like style is fresher and looser, nearly Altmanesque. Dazed and Confused is the first Hollywood movie to capture the high-schoolers of the '70s... From its pungent opening shot - a low-riding orange jalopy driving aimlessly around a school parking lot, its slow, circuitous journey lent an oddball dignity by the blissed-out strains of Aerosmith's `Sweet Emotion' - Dazed and Confused immerses us in the druggy randomness of life in the '70s...For anyone who lived through this period, Linklater produces one comic shock after another... Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly, 24/9/93