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- Synopsis
- Set entirely in a single hotel room, Slacker director Richard Linklater's latest film has only three characters. Vin (Ethan Hawke) travels home to Lansing, Michigan, for a film festival and meets up with old friend Jon (Robert Sean Leonard)....
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- Starring
- Ethan Hawke, Robert Sean Leonard, Uma Thurman
- Director(s)
- Richard Linklater
- Distributor(s)
- Lions Gate Films
- MPAA Rating
- R
- Runtime
- 86 min.
Critic Reviews
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Entertainment Weekly | Owen GleibermanAdd Critic to Favorites
Linklater has hardly been a slacker this year. I'll take the tricky confrontational babble of Tape over some of the gauzier soliloquies in ''Waking Life,'' but either way, he's a filmmaker in love with the music of talk, and let's bless him for that.Read the full review
Variety | Dennis HarveyAdd Critic to Favorites
Emphasis on its combustible emotions, suspense and surprising humor should help draw sophisticated audiences who, once lured, will quickly find themselves hooked for the duration.Read the full review
Chicago Sun-Times | Roger EbertAdd Critic to Favorites
The writing, acting and direction are so convincing that at some point I stopped thinking about the constraints and started thinking about the movie's freedoms.Read the full review