
Five young losers spend their days and nights wasting their lives away, hanging out in parking lots and occasionally mentioning that they might want to make something of themselves... someday. On this particular night, they are visited by an old high school friend who has escaped their suburban town to become a pop star.... (Full plot summary below)
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Five young losers spend their days and nights wasting their lives away, hanging out in parking lots and occasionally mentioning that they might want to make something of themselves... someday. On this particular night, they are visited by an old high school friend who has escaped their suburban town to become a pop star.
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| The New York TimesElvis MitchellMr. Bogosian's venomously funny play, which he adapted himself for the screen, is given warmth and generosity by Mr. Linklater, whose elegantly fluid direction and great skill with actors are accentuated by the play's spareness. |
| Rolling StonePeter TraversThe fierce and funny film version has been directed by Texan Richard Linklater (Slacker, Dazed and Confused, Before Sunrise) with rare grace and compassion. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThe movie is dark, intense and disturbing. |
| Chicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumNevertheless, the cast of mainly unknowns is so good, and Linklater is so adept at playing them off one another, that the two-hour running time never seems overextended. |
| VarietyGodfrey CheshireWriter-director teamings seldom mesh as smoothly or suggest so many creative affinities as does the one at the heart of subUrbia, a brooding, incisive comedy that blends the talents of helmer Richard Linklater and playwright Eric Bogosian. |
| San Francisco ChroniclePeter StackSubUrbia is depressing comedy -- the more so because director Richard Linklater's satirical picture of youthful alienation rings painfully true. |
| Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumDriven by Bogosian's finger-snapping dialogue and theatrical structure, subUrbia doesn't allow for much pleasurably Linklaterish lounging; each character has got some serious orating to do before the night is over. |
| Spirituality and PracticeFrederic and Mary Ann BrussatHard-edged drama about some soulless twentysomethings. |
| SalonScott RosenbergLinklater gets great performances from his young cast, and you'll find yourself thinking about the characters and their travails well after the movie's finish. |
| Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenPerhaps the most interesting thing about Linklater's (and Bogosian's) running commentary on disaffected suburban youth is that it doesn't bore you half as much as it should. |