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WHAT IT'S ABOUT:

Richard Linklater's follow-up to "Slacker" traces hijinks on graduation day (and night) at a local high school in the heady period of the mid-seventies. Freshmen get hazed by seniors, football jocks harassed by their coaches, party plans are made, then shifted, and lots of young people get high. The plot takes a back seat to the energy and talent of its young ensemble cast, including stars-to-be Affleck (as a boisterous bully), McConaughey, and Posey.

WHY I LOVE IT:

This true-to-life, intelligent, often hilarious movie wins you over with its sheer exuberance and dead-on recreation of the wild and wooly seventies. Director Linklater satirizes the period with considerable affection, so we feel nostalgia for a period many of us thought (at the time) was a mediocre follow-up to the prior decade. A terrific line-up of seventies rock classics and those distinctive cars add pungent flavor and atmosphere. Posey and McConaughey are both first-rate, but so is the entire lesser-known cast. Here’s an ideal double feature with "American Graffiti" or "Fast Times At Ridgemont High". “Dazed” delivers youthful, energetic fun, with capital letters.

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