• Rating:
• Genre: Comedy
• Movie Type: Gross-Out Comedy, Sex Comedy
• Themes: Cons and Scams, College Life, Mind Games
• Director: Dewey Nicks
• Main Cast: Devon Sawa, Jason Schwartzman, James King, Jason Segel, Michael C. Maronna, Laura Prepon
• Release Year: 2002
• Country: US
• Run Time: 86 minutes
• MPAA Rating: R

Plot

Three lifelong cheaters wise up in this gross-out college comedy, which marks the second feature role for Rushmore star Jason Schwartzman. It's the last semester of senior year for roomies Dave (Devon Sawa), Sam (Jason Segel), and Jeff (Michael C. Maronna), a trio of twenty-somethings whose enthusiasm for higher learning is matched only by their enthusiasm for root canals performed without the aid of anesthesia. As such, their entire collegiate existence has been an elaborate series of cons and scams designed to plagiarize essays, skip midterms, and covertly manipulate bell curves. When deranged geek Ethan (Schwartzman) -- who harbors a psychotic fixation for a flaxen-haired co-ed named Angela (James King) -- gets wind of their scheming, he blackmails Dave and the gang into contriving a date between him and his crush. But as Dave cozies up to Angela, he realizes that no amount of scheming can hide the fact that he's the one that's truly in love. Slackers went by a number of working titles while in production at the ill-fated upstart Destination Films; when Destination went belly-up, the film sat on the shelf for over a year before being picked up for release by Sony's Screen Gems division. ~ Michael Hastings, All Movie Guide

Cast

• Devon Sawa - Dave
• Jason Schwartzman - Ethan
• James King - Angela
• Jason Segel - Sam
• Michael C. Maronna - Jeff
• Laura Prepon - Reanna

Sam Anderson - Charles Patton; Leigh Taylor-Young - Valerie Patton; Joe Flaherty - Mr. Leonard; Jim Rash - Philip; Charles Dougherty - Anatomy Professor; Gina Gershon - Woman in bar (Uncredited); Jon Kasdan - Barry; Wesley Mann - Male Executive; Michael McDonald - Economics Professor1; Mamie van Doren - Mrs. Van Graaf; Gedde Watanabe - Japanese Proctor; Howard Mungo - Doctor; Marilyn Staley - Singing Waitress; Cameron Diaz - Movie Star; Joanna Sanchez - Nurse; Tom Retta - Office Manager; Todd Giebenhain - Stoned Testtaker; Don Michaelson - Professor Markoe; Heidi Kramer - Hottie #1; Japhet "J.P." Coe - Phillip; Travis Davis - Airborne Driver; Shelley Dowdy - Shelley; Rick Dubov - Security Guard; Margaret Easley - Receptionist; Mary Faulkner - Female Executive; Nat Faxon - Karl; Jason Garner - Singing Waiter; Alissa Kramer - Hottie #2; Robert B. Martin Jr. - The Gimp; Kim Stanwood - Dave's Mom; Michael Swiney - Homeless Guy; Melanie Deanne-Moore - Pissed Off Co-Ed

Credit

Joseph L. Altruda - Composer (Music Score); Brad Jenkel - Executive Producer; Bill Arnold - Production Designer; Mark Morgan - Executive Producer; John F. Brown - Set Designer; Howard A. Anderson Company - Title Design; Louis G. Friedman - Co-producer; Jennifer Levy - Costume Designer; Nilo Otero - Art Director; Nilo Otero - First Assistant Director; Cameron Hamza - Sound/Sound Designer; John Papsidera - Casting; Neal H. Moritz - Producer; Erik Feig - Producer; Amanda Scheer-Demme - Musical Direction/Supervision; Tara Timpone - Editor; Carrie Cook - Associate Producer; Ron Trost - Special Effects Coordinator; Andrew Reeder - Set Designer; Yann Delpuech - Supervising Sound Editor; Darren King - Supervising Sound Editor; James R. Bagdonas - Cinematographer; Dewey Nicks - Director; David H. Steinberg - Screenwriter; Dawn Ebert-Byrnes - Associate Producer; FX Solutions - Special Effects; FX Solutions - Visual Effects; Lisa K. Sessions - Set Designer; Lisa K. Sessions - Set Decorator; Shintaro Shimosawa - Associate Producer; Sound Dogs - Set Designer; Sound Dogs - Sound/Sound Designer; Justin Stanley - Composer (Music Score); Patrice Theroux - Executive Producer; Venus Brown & Printz Board - Composer (Music Score); William Arnold - Production Designer

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