Dazed and Confused

The adventures of incoming high school and junior high students on the last day of school, in May of 1976.

This has got to be the most dead-on accurate portrayal of teenagers in the mid-1970’s ever made. The reactionary football coaches, the keg parties in the woods, hanging out at the pool hall drinking beer, marijuana as the drug of choice, the drinking age was 18 and even then not enforced…and of course hazing the incoming freshmen. There are also a lot of subtle references that viewers who were not alive during 1976 may not catch, such as the mailboxes and fire hydrants decorated for the Bicentennial (who remembers those?), and the gas prices below 50 cents a gallon. This film brought back a lot of memories that I had completely forgotten about. You can watch this over and over again and catch new references each time that will be instantly familiar. A truly great piece of nostalgia.

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