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Dazed and Confused

Dazed and Confused

1993
R
103 min
Comedy

Plot Summary

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.

7.6
IMDb Rating
94%
Rotten Tomatoes
82
Metacritic
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Ratings & Reviews

7.6
IMDb Rating
94%
Rotten Tomatoes
82
Metacritic

Technical Details

103 min
Runtime
24 Sep 1993
Release Date
R
Content Rating
Movie
Content Type
1993
Year
Genres
Comedy

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User Reviews

tmdb39513728

Recent

**for so long its not true** I only saw it once. I dare not watch this again. For some reason it was playing at a dingy burlesque-haunted cinema on old Granville Street in Vancouver on a Sunday afternoon in 1993 where wasted men usually shuffle in to deposit their sperm. (Not enough credit goes to internet porn for cleaning up the streets). Richard Linkater wasn't a story at the time. The guy who made Slackers. The bastard love child of Jim Jarmusch and Chrissie Hynde for all I knew. No clue ...

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Filipe Manuel Neto

Filipe Manuel Neto

3.0/10
Recent

**A nostalgic film, aimed at those who lived through that time and those experiences, but which was not intended for other audiences and ended up fatally forgotten.** I'm not sure what Richard Linklater was thinking when he decided to make a comedy film about the last day of school for a group of teenagers in 1976. I've never lived in the US, but I've noticed that American culture gives a big relevance to High School, and that these educational institutions are very different from their count...

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Wuchak

Wuchak

8.0/10
Recent

**_The last day of school in 1976_** In the Austin, Texas, area, several youths complete their last day at school and celebrate through the night. "Dazed and Confused" failed at the box office in 1993-94, but has gone on to achieve a deserved cult status. It's one of the best high school comedy-dramas, along with "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" (1982). The difference between these two is that "Fast Times" contains more goofy antics whereas "Dazed" is more of a docudrama with amusing flashes...

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Technical Info
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