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About
Austin, Texas, is an Eden for the young and unambitious, from the enthusiastically eccentric to the dangerously apathetic. Here, the nobly lazy can eschew responsibility in favor of nursing their esoteric obsessions. The locals include a backseat philosopher who passionately expounds on his dream theories to a seemingly comatose cabbie, a young woman who tries to hawk Madonna's Pap test to anyone who will listen and a kindly old anarchist looking for recruits.
Theatrical
Jul 5, 1991
Box Office
$1.2M
Budget
$23K
Return
53.4x
DVD / Blu-ray
Sep 14, 2004
Theaters
1
Quotes
See all →Debate on Artistic Identity and Authenticity
Dairy Queen Photographer
So, what? Do you fancy yourself as some sort of artist or what?
Anti-Artist
No, I'm an anti-artist.
Dairy Queen Photographer
Oooooh, one of those neo-poseur types that hangs out in coffee shops, and... doesn't do much of anything. Yeah.
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Debate Over Originality and Authority in Ideas
Has Faith in Groups
You know, that's what I hate: when you start talking like this, like you just pull in these things from the shit you read, and you haven't thought it out for yourself, no bearing on the world around us, and totally unoriginal.
Based on Authoritative Sources
Okay, great. Personal attacks now, is that it? I thought we were beyond that.
Has Faith in Groups
It's like you just pasted together these bits and pieces from your "authoritative sources." I don't know. I'm beginning to suspect there's nothing really in there.
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Cast
Full credits →R
Richard Linklater
Should Have Stayed at Bus Station
M
Mark James
Hit-and-Run Son
B
Bob Boyd
Officer Bozzio
B
Brecht Andersch
Dostoyevsky Wannabe
T
Tommy Pallotta
Looking for Missing Friend
R
Ron Marks
Bush Basher
S
Scott Marcus
Ultimate Loser
T
Teresa Taylor
Pap Smear Pusher
D
Deborah Pastor
Wants to Leave Country
A
Abra Moore
Has Change
L
Louis Black
Paranoid Paper Reader
D
Don Stroud
Recluse in Bathrobe
R
Robert Pierson
Based on Authoritative Sources
S
Sarah Harmon
Has Faith in Groups
L
Lee Daniel
GTO
C
Charles Gunning
Hitchhiker Awaiting 'True Call'
L
Louis Mackey
Old Anarchist
M
Michael Laird
Burglar
J
Jack Meredith
Get-Away Accomplice
C
Clark Walker
Cadillac Crook
