Remember the Daze
During the summer of 1999, a group of teenagers, through interconnected narratives, live through their last day of high school, relish the advent of summer vacation, struggle with drugs, sex, and the unpredictability of the future before them.
22 April 1986, Austin, Texas, USA
10 October 1985, Buffalo Grove, Illinois, USA
30 January 1989, Anchorage, Alaska, USA
3 October 1984, Stuart, Florida, USA
30 June 1988, Dallas, Texas, USA
14 June 1988, Los Angeles, California, USA
August 27, 1987 in North Carolina, USA
30 August 1984, Los Angeles County, California, USA
9 April 1986, Fort Worth, Texas, USA
27 August 1988, Miami, Florida, USA
25 July 1987, Los Angeles, California, USA
16 October 2001, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, USA
21 May 1972, Dayton, Ohio, USA
7 January 1987, Oakland, California, USA
28 December 1983, Greensboro, North Carolina, USA
5 July 1988, Van Nuys, California, USA
5 October 1988, Los Alamitos, California, USA
September 28, 1979 in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
25 October 1985, Portland, Oregon, USA
17 August 1983, Mount Kisco, New York, USA
April 10, 2008
Remember the Daze has the irony-free, instant-nostalgia earnestness of your high school yearbook, but watching it is not likely to conjure your own youthful emotions -- it's more like flipping through the generic memories of a complete stranger.
April 11, 2008
Mostly, though, Remember the Daze is a set of largely plotless scenes showing teens trying to score either sex or drugs, with no particularly profound point to any of it.
April 11, 2008
[Director Jess] Manafort aims for Dazed and Confused, but falls well short of Can't Hardly Wait.
April 11, 2008
Ultimately, the ensemble of more than 20 featured characters seems as vapid as the intentionally caricatured adults who pop up on occasion. Where are this decade's John Hugheses? Or even the Cameron Crowes?
April 11, 2008
This movie isn't even sophomoric; it's freshmanic.
