Dazed and Confused (1993)

Cast includes:
CHARACTER	ACTOR/ACTRESS	RATING
Randall "Pink" Floyd	Jason London	½
Mitch Kramer	Wiley Wiggins
Don Dawson	Sasha Jenson	½
Jodi Kramer	Michelle Burge	½
Kaye Faulkner	Christine Harnos
Ron Slater	Rory Cochrane	½
Fred O'Bannion	Ben Affleck
Mike Newhouse	Adam Goldberg
Tony Olson	Anthony Rapp	½
Cynthia Dunn	Marissa Ribisi	½
Julie Simms	Catherine Avril Morris
David Wooderson	Matthew McConaughey
Kevin Pickford	Shawn Andrews	½
Benny O'Donnell	Cole Hauser	½
Michelle Burroughs	Milla Jovovich
Simone Kerr	Joey Lauren Adams
Sabrina Davis	Christin Hinojosa
Darla Marks	Parker Posey
Nesi White	Renée Zellweger

Review

This film about the final day of school for a group of high-schoolers (freshmen and seniors, mostly) before the summer holiday of 1976 is one of the best examples of capturing the time-spirit of the 1970s on film. This was Richard Linklater's first big-budget movie and the title which gave him a name in the business, and the film still stands as one of the alternatives for his magnum opus (along with Boyhood, arguably). There's a sense of instantaneity to all the mundane doings and meanderings of these kids, and that underlines the whole point of this recapturing of youth: How seemingly meaningless situations take on all the meaning in the world in the eyes of the teenager. Because what is life? This is life. And for these kids, life would never again be as filled with meaning, hope and potential - all of which most of them will waste away.