The stoner comedy memorably had Matthew McConaughey lead a cast of future stars.
The Big Picture Director Richard Linklater has a rich catalog of films to his name, but none have had quite the staying power of his 1993 feature Dazed and Confused. One of the great stoner comedies of all time, the coming-of-age tale follows the many misadventures of teenagers in Austin, Texas on the final day of school in 1976 as they prepare to close out, or just begin, their high school careers.
While speaking with Collider's Steve Weintraub at our TIFF media studio at the Cinema Center at MARBL, Linklater was asked about the moment he thought Dazed and Confused could be more than just a successful comedy. "I thought that the first time audiences were seeing it, but you don't really know," he revealed, though he admits he couldn't quite predict just how long the film's tail would be.
"About a year later, it was still playing. Back then they still had midnight screenings, remember? And it played a full year at certain theaters, a little bit of the theatrical run for however many weeks, and then it kicked to midnight, and it played for a year as a midnighter, and they're talking about, 'People come in, and you can smell the reefer smoke in the theater. It's like a party film.' I was like, 'That's interesting.' So, I don’t know.
Linklater's Stoner Comedy Featured a Cast That Was "Alright Alright Alright" Linklater has gone on to work on Academy Award-nominated films like Boyhood, Before Sunset, and After Midnight, but no matter how audiences keep getting older, Dazed and Confused stays the same masterpiece.
Linklater's latest film, the action comedy Hit Man, premiered at TIFF this year and stars Glen Powell as a cop who works undercover as Houston's most sought-after hitman and eventually decides to break protocol to help a woman trapped in an abusive relationship. It doesn't have a theatrical release date yet, but you check out our full interview with the director about the film below:
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