Comedy | USA | 102min | Director: Richard Linklater
Cast: Jason London, Rory Cochrane, Wiley Wiggins, Joey Lauren Adams, Parker Posey, Adam Goldberg, Anthony Rapp, Matthew McConaughey, Milla Jovovich, Shawn Andrews, Sasha Jenson , Marissa Ribisi, Milla Jovovich, Deena Martin, Michelle Burke, Ben Affleck, Cole Hauser, Christine Harnos, Mark Vandermeulen
The story deals with a group of friends on the last day of high school, 1976. Good-natured football star Randall "Pink" Floyd navigates effortlessly between the warring worlds of jocks, stoners, wannabes, and rockers with girlfriend and new-freshman buddy in tow. Surprisingly, it's not a coming-of-age movie, but a film that dares ask the eternal, overwhelming, adolescent question, "What happens next?"
It's a little too honest to be a light comedy (representative quote: "If I ever say these were the best years of my life, remind me to kill myself.").
But it's also way too much fun (remember souped-up Corvettes and bicentennial madness?) to be just another existential-essay-on-celluloid.