Suburbia

A long, dark night o' slacker despair, courtesy of Richard Linklater and self-important blowhard Eric Bogosian. Their souls poisoned by the ugliness of strip malls and the bourgeois amenities of middle-class life, Jeff (Giovanni Ribisi), Sooze (Amie Carey), Buff (Steve Zahn), Tim (Nicky Katt) and Bee-Bee (Dina Spybey) are profoundly alienated and waste their time hanging around a convenience-store parking lot, drinking and bemoaning their lot. This particularly night is defined by a visit from high-school classmate Pony (Jayce Bartok), a folk-rocker riding the wave of modest overnight success, and his slutty, condescending publicist (Parker Posey). What passes for ir...