Dazed and Confused is the story of the last day of school in 1976 and the impact it has on the lives of the students of a small suburban town. Drugs, muscle cars, drugs, arena rock, drugs, feathered hair, and we can't forget the drugs permeate this film from writer/director Richard Linklater. When looking at the film from the outside it seems to be yet another teenage sex comedy like Porky's a decade before it and American Pie a decade after it. But what Linklater has created amounts to a modern retelling of the 1973 film American Graffiti, instead of it being 1962 it's 1976- a whole different era but the same old problems. This film could have fallen into the forgotten realm of teen sex comedy, but it has more of a heart than is apparent by the stoner images on the box. Dazed and Confused could have taken the low road and made a mint, but went on the less traveled road of telling a good story with characters that are more than just flat bread.
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