Slacker
"slacker" Movies and TV Shows
#1
Career Opportunities
Synopsis:
Josie, the daughter of the town's wealthiest businessman, faces problems at home and wishes to leave town but is disoriented. Her decision is finalized after she falls asleep in a Target dressing room. She awakens to find herself locked in the store overnight with the janitor, Jim, the town "no hoper" and liar.
Starring:
Jennifer Connelly,
Noble Willingham,
Dermot Mulroney
Plot:
department store,
night shift,
liar,
janitor,
locked in a store,
coming of age,
flirting,
fired from a job,
criminal,
bicycle
...
#2
Community
Synopsis:
Follow the lives of a group of students at what is possibly the world’s worst community college in the fictional locale of Greendale, Colorado.
Starring:
Keith David,
Paget Brewster,
Joel McHale
Plot:
community college,
study group,
friendship,
sitcom,
spanish class,
christian stereotype,
dean,
parody,
lawyer,
male protagonist
...
#3
Doraemon
Synopsis:
Doraemon is an anime TV series created by Fujiko F. Fujio and based on the manga series of the same name. This anime is the much more successful successor of the 1973 anime.
Starring:
Michiko Nomura,
Kazuya Tatekabe,
Kaneta Kimotsuki
Plot:
japan,
time travel,
school life,
doraemon,
anime,
eyeglasses,
doroyaki,
musophobia,
talking animal,
boy wears eyeglasses
...
#4
They Live
Synopsis:
Nada, a wanderer without meaning in his life, discovers a pair of sunglasses capable of showing the world the way it truly is. As he walks the streets of Los Angeles, Nada notices that both the media and the government are comprised of subliminal messages meant to keep the population subdued, and that most of the social elite are skull-faced aliens bent on world domination. With this shocking dis…
Starring:
Keith David,
Roddy Piper,
Meg Foster
#5
The Big Lebowski
Synopsis:
Jeffrey 'The Dude' Lebowski, a Los Angeles slacker who only wants to bowl and drink White Russians, is mistaken for another Jeffrey Lebowski, a wheelchair-bound millionaire, and finds himself dragged into a strange series of events involving nihilists, adult film producers, ferrets, errant toes, and large sums of money.
Starring:
Peter Stormare,
Steve Buscemi,
Sam Elliott
Plot:
rug,
nihilism,
pornographer,
mistaken identity,
death of friend,
bowling alley,
bowling,
death,
cult film,
millionaire
...
#6
Shaun of the Dead
Synopsis:
Shaun lives a supremely uneventful life, which revolves around his girlfriend, his mother, and, above all, his local pub. This gentle routine is threatened when the dead return to life and make strenuous attempts to snack on ordinary Londoners.
Starring:
Bill Nighy,
Simon Pegg,
Peter Serafinowicz
#7
School of Rock
Synopsis:
Fired from his band and hard up for cash, guitarist and vocalist Dewey Finn finagles his way into a job as a fifth-grade substitute teacher at a private school, where he secretly begins teaching his students the finer points of rock 'n' roll. The school's hard-nosed principal is rightly suspicious of Finn's activities. But Finn's roommate remains in the dark about what he's doing.
Starring:
Joan Cusack,
Miranda Cosgrove,
Jack Black
#8
Point Break
Synopsis:
In Los Angeles, a gang of bank robbers who call themselves The Ex-Presidents commit their crimes while wearing masks of Reagan, Carter, Nixon and Johnson. Believing that the members of the gang could be surfers, the F.B.I. sends young agent Johnny Utah to the beach undercover to mix with the surfers and gather information.
Starring:
Keanu Reeves,
John Philbin,
Patrick Swayze
Plot:
bank robbery,
surfer,
title directed by female,
male bonding,
robbery,
gang,
gangster,
criminal,
investigation,
masked robber
...
#9
Office Space
Synopsis:
A depressed white-collar worker tries hypnotherapy, only to find himself in a perpetual state of devil-may-care bliss that prompts him to start living by his own rules, and hatch a hapless attempt to embezzle money from his soul-killing employers.
Starring:
Gary Cole,
Diedrich Bader,
Jennifer Aniston
Plot:
black comedy,
boss,
office,
computer,
corporation,
software engineer,
memo,
employee,
dark comedy,
corporate downsizing
...
#10
National Lampoon's Van Wilder
Synopsis:
Van Wilder has been attending college for far too many years and is scared to graduate, but Van’s father eventually realizes what is going on. When he stops paying his son's tuition fees, Van must come up with the money if he wants to stay in college, so he and his friends come up with a great fund-raising idea – throwing parties. However, when the college magazine finds out and reporter, Gwen is…
Starring:
Ryan Reynolds,
Tara Reid,
Tim Matheson
#11
Look Who's Talking Too
Synopsis:
Mollie and James are together and raising a family, which now consists of an older Mikey and his baby sister, Julie. Tension between the siblings arises, and as well with Mollie and James when Mollie's brother Stuart moves in. Mikey is also learning how to use the toilet for the first time.
Starring:
Bruce Willis,
Gilbert Gottfried,
Mel Brooks
#12
I Vitelloni
Synopsis:
Five young men dream of success as they drift lazily through life in a small Italian village. Fausto, the group's leader, is a womanizer; Riccardo craves fame; Alberto is a hopeless dreamer; Moraldo fantasizes about life in the city; and Leopoldo is an aspiring playwright. As Fausto chases a string of women, to the horror of his pregnant wife, the other four blunder their way from one uneventful …
Starring:
Leopoldo Trieste,
Franco Fabrizi,
Jean Brochard
Plot:
train station,
card game,
crossdressing,
goodbye,
flower,
match,
billiards,
police officer,
billiard hall,
theater
...
#13
Dude, Where's My Car?
Synopsis:
Two stoners wake up after a night of partying and cannot remember where they parked their car.
Starring:
Jennifer Garner,
Seann William Scott,
David Herman
#14
Dazed and Confused
Synopsis:
The adventures of a group of Texas teens on their last day of school in 1976, centering on student Randall Floyd, who moves easily among stoners, jocks and geeks. Floyd is a star athlete, but he also likes smoking weed, which presents a conundrum when his football coach demands he sign a "no drugs" pledge.
Starring:
Rory Cochrane,
Sasha Jenson,
Milla Jovovich
Plot:
hazing,
high school,
last day of school,
student,
texas,
year 1976,
coming of age,
football,
pledge,
party
...
#15
Clerks
Synopsis:
Convenience and video store clerks Dante and Randal are sharp-witted, potty-mouthed and bored out of their minds. So in between needling customers, the counter jockeys play hockey on the roof, visit a funeral home and deal with their love lives.
Starring:
Kevin Smith,
Scott Mosier,
Jason Mewes
#16
Billy Madison
Synopsis:
Billy Madison is the 27 year-old son of Bryan Madison, a very rich man who has made his living in the hotel industry. Billy stands to inherit his father's empire, but only if he can make it through all 12 grades, 2 weeks per grade, to prove that he has what it takes to run the family business.
Starring:
Adam Sandler,
Larry Hankin,
Bradley Whitford
#17
Big Daddy
Synopsis:
A lazy law school grad adopts a kid to impress his girlfriend, but everything doesn't go as planned and he becomes the unlikely foster father.
Starring:
Leslie Mann,
Dylan Sprouse,
Steve Buscemi
#18
Animal House
Synopsis:
At a 1962 College, Dean Vernon Wormer is determined to expel the entire Delta Tau Chi Fraternity, but those troublemakers have other plans for him.
Starring:
Tim Matheson,
Tom Hulce,
Peter Riegert
#19
About a Boy
Synopsis:
Will Freeman is a good-looking, smooth-talking bachelor whose primary goal in life is avoiding any kind of responsibility. But when he invents an imaginary son in order to meet attractive single moms, Will gets a hilarious lesson about life from a bright, but hopelessly geeky 12-year-old named Marcus. Now, as Will struggles to teach Marcus the art of being cool, Marcus teaches Will that you're ne…
Starring:
Rachel Weisz,
Nicholas Hoult,
Toni Collette
Plot:
single mother,
bullying,
dating,
selfishness,
supermarket,
park,
motherhood,
lie,
loneliness,
suicide
...
#20
Jerry & Marge Go Large
Synopsis:
The remarkable true story of how retiree Jerry Selbee discovers a mathematical loophole in the Massachusetts lottery and, with the help of his wife, Marge, wins $27 million dollars and uses the money to revive their small Michigan town.
Starring:
Michael McKean,
Annette Bening,
Bryan Cranston