Directed by Richard Linklater, presents a day in the life of a loose-knit Austin, Texas, subculture populated by eccentric and overeducated young people. Shooting on sixteen mm for a mere $3,000, writer-producer-director Linklater and his crew of friends threw out any idea of a traditional plot, choosing instead to create a tapestry of over a hundred characters, each as compelling as the last.

I'm living in this world. I'm what, a slacker? A "twentysomething"? I'm in the margins. I'm not building a wall but making a brick. Okay, here I am, a tired inheritor of the Me generation, floating from school to street to bookstore to movie theater with a certain uncertainty. I'm in that white space where consumer terror meets irony and pessimism, where Scooby Doo and Dr. Faustus hold equal sway over the mind, where the Butthole Surfers provide the background volume, where we choose what is not obvious over what is easy. It goes on...like TV channel-cruising, no plot, no tragic flaws, no resolution, just mastering the moment, pushing forward, full of sound and fury, full of life signifying everything on any given day...

Presents a day and night in Austin, Texas among its social outcasts using a series of vignettes that catches the crazies and lazies in clubs, bars, stores and the streets of the college town. Satires a growing generation of young idlers or "slackers."

Slacker: A day in the life of a loose-knit Austin, Texas, subculture populated by eccentric and overeducated young people. It's impossible to learn to plow by reading books:

The film examines slackers, the new generation of neo-beatniks - the latest in a continuing parade of hippies, yippies & yuppies. Set in the coffeehouses, clubs, bars, apartments, stores & streets of the college town of Austin, Texas, "Slacker" is an ingeniously choreographed look at some 100 city residents. This film has neither a conventional plot nor any central characters.

A set of satirical vignettes about a growing generation of young idlers or "slackers", in Austin, Texas.