![]() ![]() Taylor would become the face of the "Slacker," being the only cast member featured on the poster for the film. The conversation between Scott Marcus and Stella Weir (of the band Glass Eye) and former Butthole Surfers drummer Teresa Taylor was shot just west of where Austin City Hall now stands at Guadalupe and Second Streets. Further south on Guadalupe Street, in the heart of downtown Austin, is where the infamous 'Madonna's pap smear' scene was filmed.The two characters played by Tommy Pallotta and Jerry Deloney start walking from the former Quackenbush’s Intergalactic Dessert Co & Espresso Café (Quack's) in the heart of the Drag (fun fact: the upstairs was original home of Richard Linklater’s Austin Film Society). Also filmed on West Campus was a walk and talk conversation about the moon landing being a hoax.This historic mural is probably the most famous piece of street art in Austin and is a great spot to visit for a photo. Along the way they walk past the wall that would become the site of artist Daniel Johnston’s iconic “Hi, How Are You" mural. A couple (Pierson and Harmon) give away a Diet Coke before turning off Guadalupe onto 21st Street on the way to a former Half Price Books (and run in with a JFK conspiracy enthusiast).A street musician (McCormack) playing his guitar on the steps of a the former Church of Scientology building.Location: Starbucks (504 W 24th St Suite B, Austin, TX 78705)Ī great deal of the scenes in "Slacker" were filmed in and along "the Drag," which is a section of Guadalupe Street along the western edge of the University of Texas campus. Though you can still walk on Guadalupe Street locations, most of the businesses no longer exist or look vastly different, including: One of Austin’s long-gone but most beloved cafes, Les Amis Café was featured heavily in the scene where the angry hitchhiker (Gunning) provides some choice quotes for a camera crew, among them: “all it does is fill the bellies of the pigs who exploit us.” Les Amis is gone but not forgotten in it's place a Starbucks with a nice patio where many students still study. Location: The Castilian (2323 San Antonio St, Austin, TX 78705) Today, the location, which is just west of the UT campus, looks wildly different from the film with a number of modern high-rise student apartment buildings. Montgomery, Tommy Pollatta, Jerry Delony, Keith McCormack, Scott Marcus, Debbie Pastor and Michael Laird.Ī taxi drops Richard Linklater (also director of the film) off on 24th Street between San Antonio & Nueces Streets near the Castilian dorm, where he witnesses a hit and run. A lot of Austin has changed in the years since "Slacker" was made, and revisiting the filming locations adds amazing historical context to the film and to the city itself.ĭetails: Orion Pictures / Rated R / 97 minutes / ComedyĬast: Richard Linklater, Rudy Basquez, Lee Daniel, Terrence Kirk, Bob Boyd, Steve Jacobson, Mark Harris, Frank Orrall, Clark Walker, Abra Moore, Wammo, Sarah Harmon, Charles Gunning, Scott Rhodes, Kim Krizan, Mark James, Stella Weir, John Slate, Robert Pierson, Louis Mackey, Teresa Taylor, Louis Black, D. Though it found a small audience at first, "Slacker" became a huge cult film on video, kickstarting director Richard Linklater’s career and the burgeoning indie film scene in Austin and the United States. After playing the festival circuit for over a year, "Slacker" found a distributor and was released into select theaters nation-wide in July 1991. Shot in the summer of 1989 on a budget of $23,000, "Slacker" premiered at Austin’s Dobie Theater in July 1990. "Slacker" is the only one that claims this city's version of life on the margins of the working world as its whole subject." "Slacker" presents a meandering day in Austin as the camera roams from place to place, following an assortment of overeducated creatives, conspiracy theorists, philosophers, outcasts, social misfits, and oddballs, while giving brief glimpses into their lives. As Chris Walters with the Austin Chronicle wrote, "few of the many films shot in Austin over the past 10 or 15 years even attempt to make something of the way its citizens live". Many consider "Slacker" to be the definitive Austin and Gen X film. ![]()
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