A group of suburban teenagers try to support each other through the difficult task of becoming adults.
Acting
Steve Zahn's Buff is painfully perfect.
Writing
Bogosian's play bites harder than expected.
Direction
Linklater's most cynical, least forgiving film.
Director
Richard Linklater
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Eric Bogosian wrote the original play after observing teenagers outside a 7-Eleven in Massachusetts. Linklater filmed at an actual closed supermarket in Austin.
The film bombed because it was marketed as a Dazed and Confused follow-up, but it's actually Linklater's bleakest work—more Glengarry Glen Ross than high school nostalgia.
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