Rating: R
Genre:
Comedy
Theatrical Release: 02/01/2002(USA)
Release Date: 05/28/2002
SubTitles: English
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD5.1
Run Time: 86 Minutes
Flags: Adult Situations, Strong Sexual Content, Adult Language, Adult Humor, Profanity
Distributor/Studio: Columbia TriStar
Three lifelong cheaters wise up in this gross-out
college comedy, which marks the second feature role for
Rushmore star
Jason Schwartzman. It's the last semester of senior year for roomies
Dave (
Devon Sawa),
Sam (
Jason Segel), and
Jeff (
Michael C. Maronna), a trio of twenty-somethings whose enthusiasm for higher learning is matched only by their enthusiasm for root canals performed without the aid of anesthesia. As such, their entire collegiate existence has been an elaborate series of cons and scams designed to plagiarize essays, skip midterms, and covertly manipulate bell curves. When deranged geek
Ethan (
Schwartzman) -- who harbors a psychotic fixation for a flaxen-haired co-ed named
Angela (
James King) -- gets wind of their scheming, he blackmails
Dave and the gang into contriving a date between him and his crush. But as
Dave cozies up to
Angela, he realizes that no amount of scheming can hide the fact that he's the one that's truly in love.
Slackers went by a number of working titles while in production at the ill-fated upstart
Destination Films; when
Destination went belly-up, the film sat on the shelf for over a year before being picked up for release by
Sony's
Screen Gems division.
~ Michael Hastings, All Movie Guide
;)
