Dazed and Confused

Director: Richard Linklater, Richard Linklater

1993 / 103min / 35mm

Linklater’s shaggy, endlessly quotable comedy, set on the last day of classes—and the hard-partying night that follows—at Lee High School in Austin, Texas, in the bicentennial year of 1976, offers a look at American society through the microcosm of high school, an amiably meandering study in teen anomie boasting a soundtrack of hesher rock standards and a who’s-who ensemble cast including Milla Jovovich, Parker Posey, Jason London, Ben Affleck, and Matthew McConaughey, giving perhaps the definitive Matthew McConaughey Performance. “If I ever say these were the best years of my life, remind me to kill myself.”