Dazed and Confused
Directed by Richard Linklater
It's the last day of school at a high school in a small town in Texas in 1976. The upperclassmen are hazing the incoming freshmen, and everyone is trying to get stoned, drunk, or laid, even the football players that signed a pledge not to.
Where to Watch Dazed and Confused
- CubaneMay 5, 2026The producers never seem to think we'll notice that a bunch of high school seniors are 30 years old, and all drive high-end American muscle cars in mint condition. It seems the seniors are all actually gay with the amount of time they spend lusting over male 8th grader ass to pummel with their cricket bats.
- Oliver ReznikMay 7, 2025Dazed and Confused has me feeling nostalgia for a time I never experienced. It's a no plot, sort of "check out these characters talking a lot" movie. Not super funny or suspenseful. But it was still fun. It brings you back to the exciting and ridiculous social dynamics you experienced in high school in a very authentic and insightful package. You just don't get these kinds of social dynamics in adult life anymore, probably for the best, but it's nice to have a window to those feelings. Dazed and Confused captures your attention with its huge cast characters, allowing it to skillfully move from one setting and set of characters to the next with perfect timing. It has lots of interesting, but very high school, scenarios condensed into a tight package. It has quite a bit of salaciousness and violence to give it some edge. The movie focuses on new freshman and new seniors. This is a clever move that allows it to create a narrative out of the cycle of growth and coming of age through peer pressure. We see freshmen trying to play their own games of sex, mischief, and being cool. Then we see the seniors playing those games in a different, more developed way. And we see how the seniors guide these freshmen down a path to become the new seniors, eventually. A self-perpetuating cycle. Dazed and Confused gives you an interesting world to revisit and live in for a little while. It's great that it's a period piece of the director's own nostalgic time in high school. I think that gives it a timelessness. Also, a timelessness in that there are simply some constants in the high school experience.
Dazed and Confused Trivia
Dazed and Confused was released on September 24, 1993.
Dazed and Confused was directed by Richard Linklater.
Dazed and Confused has a runtime of 1h 42m.
Dazed and Confused was produced by James Jacks, Sean Daniel, Richard Linklater.
It's the last day of school at a high school in a small town in Texas in 1976. The upperclassmen are hazing the incoming freshmen, and everyone is trying to get stoned, drunk, or laid, even the football players that signed a pledge not to.
The key characters in Dazed and Confused are Pink (Jason London), Wooderson (Matthew McConaughey), Simone (Joey Lauren Adams).
Dazed and Confused is rated R.
Dazed and Confused is a Comedy, Drama film.
Dazed and Confused has an audience rating of 9 out of 10.
Dazed and Confused had a budget of $6.9M.
Dazed and Confused has made $8.3M at the box office.