SubUrbia

Director Richard Linklater and writer/actor Eric Bogosian collaborated on this adaptation of Bogosian's play about a handful of people edging into their 20's who seem like the poor relations of the genial eccentrics in Linklater's Slacker. While the Texas bohemians in Slacker has their myriad ...more

If fans of punchier or more titillating teen-angst fare find Richard Linklater's SubUrbia unaccountably dreary, it's because this slightly stagebound Eric Bogosian adaptation is actually more of a darkly comic critique of aimless post-adolescence than an exploitation of it. The conflict between the hard-working immigrant kids who run the convenience store that serves as both primary setting and overriding metaphor and the aimless American youth who hang out in its parking lot says a lot about ...more