The summer before I went to film school (I think) there were lines of people outside a small movie theater in Dupont Circle in DC waiting to check out Slacker. When I finally saw the movie in Chicago a couple of months later I thought it was kinda neat. Since then, specially in the 90's - I think I've seen this movie on VHS fully or in part over a dozen times (great thing about Slacker you can drop in on it at any point & then leave when you get tired of it - not plot driven, each scene is its own story). Here's Slacker on Hulu:
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