Lazybones (1925), The Big Lebowski (1998), Dazed and Confused (1993), Richard Linklater: Dream Is Destiny (2016), Grandma's Boy (2006), Idle Hands (1999), Dead Man on Campus (1998), Smiley Face (2007) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Slacker movies.
Storyline: "Lazybones" Steve (Buck Jones) is fawned over by his girlfriend, Agnes (Jane Novak) and doting mother. But, when he saves Agnes' sister from a suicide attempt, this loafer suddenly finds himself raising her secret newborn daughter, Kit. His easy life turns hard when the town assumes she's his illegitimate child. Steve is called to fight in World War I, and when he returns Kit is no longer a picked-on kid but a beautiful woman (Madge Bellamy). Then his love becomes not quite so paternal.
Plot Keywords: silent film, comedy, drama, romance, slice of life, character study, slacker ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: When "the dude" Lebowski is mistaken for a millionaire Lebowski, two thugs urinate on his rug to coerce him into paying a debt he knows nothing about. While attempting to gain recompense for the ruined rug from his wealthy counterpart, he accepts a one-time job with high pay-off. He enlists the help of his bowling buddy, Walter, a gun-toting Jewish-convert with anger issues. Deception leads to more trouble, and it soon seems that everyone from porn empire tycoons to nihilists want something from The Dude.
Plot Keywords: comedy, crime, black comedy, mystery, absurd, los angeles, kidnapping ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: It's the last day of school at a high school in a small town in Texas in 1976. The upperclassmen are hazing the incoming freshmen, and everyone is trying to get stoned, drunk, or laid, even the football players that signed a pledge not to.
Plot Keywords: coming of age, teen, high school, 1970s, nostalgia, comedy, ensemble cast ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A feature documentary on the life and work of filmmaker, Richard Linklater. Produced and Directed by Louis Black (founder of SXSW Festivals and the Austin Chronicle) and Karen Bernstein (Emmy and Grammy Award winning documentary filmmaker), this is an unusual look at a fiercely independent style of filmmaking that arose from Austin, Texas in the 1980s/ early 90's and how Linklater's films, Slacker, Dazed and Confused, Waking Life and Boyhood, sparked a low budget, in your own backyard movement in this country and around the world.
Plot Keywords: documentary, biography, filmmaking, director, independent film, behind the scenes, creative process ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: When his roommate spends the rent money on hookers, Alex, a 35 year old video game tester has to find a new place to live. After an "encounter" with his friend's mom, Alex is forced to move in with his grandmother. Trying to save face with his younger co-workers, Alex says that "a really cute chick said I could sleep with her and her two crazy girlfriends" (meaning his grandmother and her two roommates).
Plot Keywords: comedy, humor, marijuana, adult, independent film, coming of age, friendship ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Seventeen year old slacker Anton Tobias wakes up one Halloween morning to discover that both of his parents have been turned into two headless Halloween decorations. After speaking to his equally irresponsible friends, Mick and Pnub, he discovers that his right hand has a blood-thirsty mind of its own and is hell-bent on wreaking havoc whether he likes it or not.
Plot Keywords: horror, comedy, supernatural, teen, slacker, possession, high school ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Josh, (Scott) a college student on a scholarship, gets taught the about crazy nightlife of being in college by his unreliable roommate Cooper (Gosselaar) and fails his midterms due to being unprepared. With Cooper's father no longer willing to pay his son's way through college, and Josh needing to keep up his grades or risk losing his scholarship, the two learn of a hidden clause in the school's rules that basically says "if your roommate commits suicide, you get straight A's." Since neither are willing to do so, they instead decide to invite a suicidal colleague in. - and push him over the edge.
Plot Keywords: comedy, campus, black comedy, college, prank, absurd, youth ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: After a young actress unknowingly eats her roommate's marijuana cupcakes, her day becomes a series of misadventures.
Plot Keywords: comedy, crime, marijuana, absurd, black comedy, los angeles, female lead ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A rebellious stoner named Moondog lives life by his own rules.
Plot Keywords: comedy, adventure, drama, absurd, free spirit, nonconformist, drug culture ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Slacker Zack Bradley works as a box boy at Super Club, a warehouse club store. It is the lowest in the job hierarchy at the store. He doesn't work very hard at his job, and along with some of his fellow employee friends treats the store like his playground. Regardless, he is well liked by most of the other employees. He used to be hard working, when he was developing a dot com, but he lost all his and his grandmother's money in the process. As such, he decided not to take any risks in life while he now lives with her so as to provide her with what he considers at least a more reliable life. On the other extreme is Vince Downey, who lords an air of superiority over his fellow employees as the store's head cashier. He lives to be the store's best employee solely so that he can be named Employee of the Month, which he has been named seventeen months in a row. If he is named Employee of the Month for a record eighteenth time in a row, he will be rewarded with entrance into the ...
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, workplace, competition, love, love triangle, humor ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A group of slackers who are living for free in a rock star's mansion find their sweet lives threatened when the musician decides to sell his pad.
Plot Keywords: comedy, usa, independent film, low budget, humor, absurd, life ...
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