Plot Summary

SPECIAL FEATURES:

• DISC ONE
• New high-definition digital transfer, with restored image and sound supervised by director Richard Linklater and director of photography Lee Daniel, made from original 16mm film elements
• Three audio commentaries featuring Richard Linklater and members of the cast and crew
• Casting tapes featuring select "auditions" from the over one - hundred - member cast, with an essay from production manager/casting director Anne Walker - McBay
• An early film treatment
• Home movies
• Ten - minute trailer for a documentary about the landmark Austin cafe, Les Amis, which served as location for several scenes in Slacker
• Stills gallery featuring hundreds of rare behind - the - scenes production and publicity photos
• English subtitles for the deaf and hearing impaired
• Optimal image quality: RSDL dual - layer edition
  
  
• DISC TWO
• It's Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books (1988), Linklater's first full - length feature, with commentary by the director, available here for the first time on home video
• Woodshock, an early short 16mm film made by Linklater and Lee Daniel in 1985
• "The Roadmap," the working script of Slacker, including fourteen deleted scenes and alternate takes
• Footage from the Slacker tenth - anniversary in Austin, Texas, in 2001
• Original theatrical trailer
• Slacker culture essay by Linklater
• Information about the Austin Film Society, founded in 1985 by Linklater with Daniel, including early flyers from screenings
• English subtitles for the deaf and hearing impaired