Dazed and Confused | School's Out!

What better way to send off a school year than with Alice Cooper's "School's Out"? And some good-natured hazing by the all-star cast, including Ben Affleck, Parker Posey, and Anthony Rapp, of course.
This critically acclaimed cult favorite, written and directed by Richard Linklater (The School of Rock), explores the last day of school - and one wild night - in the lives of high school students in 1976. Complete with bongs and bell bottoms, macrame and mood rings, and featuring classic rock music by Aerosmith, Black Sabbath and KISS, this superb ensemble cast of up-and-comers (Ben Affleck, Matthew McConaughey, Parker Posey and Milla Jovovich) delivers an enduring film that Rolling Stone called "spectacularly funny!" 1976 was a time they'd never forget…if only they could remember…
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[@wh00is007]

"25 of y'all ain't coming back" 🤣🤣🤣

[@kat35lulu88]

I loved Mr. Paine😅

[@jakep1979]

@@kat35lulu88 He sounds like a dude disguised as a dude and playing another dude!

[@theholymackerel072]

Imagine how many kids would be better with Mr. Payne as their home room teacher.

[@johnracine4589]

The way they all roll their eyes when Mr. Payne starts telling another ‘Nam story, only to have them all jump when he slams the book shut. 😂

[@pod9363]

I like how this movie has all the perspectives of each group of kids in high school.

[@bundesblum]

damn right :) superb movie.

[@thomasfrye8996]

Very true

[@highlander5849]

I agree with you

[@MattPurvis-gt3ww]

It's a fucking masterpiece.

[@timregan1005]

i never realized that! i thought it was a movie about high school

[@PradeepRevolts]

It can never be remade, classic

[@jamesdick2580]

i'm actually surprised Hollywood HASN'T tried to remake it, seeing as they're trying to re-make or reboot everything else since they cant come up with anything original anymore.

[@joshelley1062]

Of course not it's a classic movie from the 90s you can't replace it only way to replace it is watch it over and over again

[@nomoreheroes1718]

Darla w/ that widows peak hairline is so hot.

[@shadowbanned3716]

No kidding. Please hollywood, never try to touch this with your modern stupidity

[@timregan1005]

because it'd be rainbow flags and crying... sounds like a crappy movie

[@theholymackerel072]

Parker Posey’s voice could open a garage door in this movie. She NAILED this role, we all knew her in high school.

[@brianmay3669]

Benny’s C-10 is still one of the baddest trucks I’ve ever laid eyes on.

[@JaxonSmithers]

Badass truck!

[@fillmore1267]

I got one

[@bradkoehler5814]

You mean Rip had that badass C-10😅

[@brianmay3669]

@@bradkoehler5814 Whenever I see Cole with brown hair, I’m like “Right… I know you. I remember!”

[@bradkoehler5814]

@@brianmay3669 Shit,that was what 94? 30 years ago!Those were the good old days.

[@Krawberry]

6:20 always makes me chuckle. The energy that only rises, and she didnt even skip a beat when yelling "air raid". It's so good

[@toxichammertoe8696]

0:23 I actually knew an older man named Mr Payne and he was a veteran and teacher and talked just like this😂 he died at almost 90 and alot of people showed up at his funeral... great guy!

[@vitorbispo9267]

Was he black? Because if he was it will be so cool

[@immobilien]

This movie was about the high school kids at Huntsville High in Huntsville. Texas. I was at Sam Houston State University from 1975 to 1979 and witnessed alot of this. I also was in the same class as Richard Linklater..

[@jamesdick2580]

LMAO!!! "whoooooeeyyy, ducks on the pond!" "how ya doin' boys?" *goes into a high-speed chase*

[@Kylefassbinderful]

followed by the fact that in Texas (no matter what the decade is) you'll have a gun pulled on you by trespassing onto someone's suburban property. Gotta love TEX'S

[@ratattacked6860]

Always cracks me up hahaha

[@jamesdick2580]

@@ratattacked6860 oh hell yeah! especially the sadistic looks in the faces of the guys doing the chasing.

[@jordanhicks5131]

Love that Vietnam vet teacher

[@leanajo754]

My favorite scene in the whole movie. So funny & true.

[@Vector2112]

1976: Culturally approved hazing 2022 : Felony

[@sheeeitmayn4384]

We are so weak now. America is doomed.

[@NyqWill95]

Not in small town America. My school and surrounding high schools still haze and initiate freshmen.

[@angelvalle6515]

It's a rite of passage .

[@reginalatson79]

The Shotgun Wielding Parent didn’t approve.

[@michaelsieger9133]

@@reginalatson79 Because O’Bannion got greedy. He crossed a line by trying to haze the freshman on their parent’s property. It was disrespectful.

[@rickyray2794]

lmao i love how they jump when he says MEN

[@donleonshi]

One of my favourite films 🥰

[@MattPurvis-gt3ww]

It's sooooo good.

[@christinasavannah7992]

Momma Bear didn't care if O'Bannon was 17 she pulled that gauge out

[@pontiacGXPfan]

It's Texas...everybody has a shotty somewhere in their house

[@theholymackerel072]

The shotgun and giant belt buckles remind you this is suburban Texas.

[@alexcaruso8766]

He was a super senior. I think he was 18.

[@Innertame01]

Literally the best movie ever

[@MattPurvis-gt3ww]

It's the American Graffiti of the 90's - and it's fuckin fantastic.

[@craigfoye6674]

3:55 Gotta love this part!! And the song “Jim Dandy to the Rescue”!!!

[@billbill9392]

Jb by ryder, in Indiana atleast that song was hijacked for jd byryder i cant even remember if it was car insurance or rental lol

[@pontiacGXPfan]

Black Oak Arkansas

[@truthhurts3524]

“Promise! Two handfuls!” Benny’s truck is the best.

[@georgehollingsworth2428]

As someone who was in this graduating class in a town a few hours away, its downright spooky how accurate this movie is.

[@benjaminlambert4181]

I love the contrast from one Pickup to another with Parker Posey and Michelle Burke. Straight up bully to nurturing role model

[@CatcherOfBass]

I used turn this movie on every time I’d smoke a bowl during one of my summers of high school.

[@jaya1000]

So you watched it 40 times a week?

[@CatcherOfBass]

@@jaya1000 pretty much

[@jaya1000]

@@CatcherOfBass couldve just got a job you god **** stoner

[@guidadiehl9176]

Wow, what a life you led.

[@Skellington78]

Last day of 8th grade going into freshman year, I had to watch this movie, one of the best depictions of the 70s ever!!! I was totally born in the wrong era, I wanna be in the 70s soo badly!!!

[@axlneztsosie3176]

Same here I'd watch this or it be on TV every May around graduation and school out. Those were the days man. Lot of good memories.

[@butchrodgers9559]

So you weren’t born in the 70s yet you think this is the best depiction of it. Something you never experienced? Something you don’t know shot about?

[@aaronbeardsley3261]

If you believe that we are all one being living subjectively through different lives and that time doesn't matter, it's easy to imagine that you DID live through these times. Cheers

[@NoticerOfficial]

@@butchrodgers9559Oooo he said it’s a good depiction of the 70s, that aughta really grind down in your gears real good. Like a little granite pebble, just gnashing into the teeth of a little sprocket. How f*cking dare him. Things he doesn’t know sh** about. Fkn told him. He knows now. Fk… you must have a 329 IQ

[@vincenthammons-kd9du]

90's were the best

[@ChadElk88]

The costume designer gets a 20 out of 10.

[@MattPurvis-gt3ww]

Oh, definitely - very authentic. From the buildings, to the cars, etc.

[@arkwill14]

Except for the Misfits patch on a biker's jacket that appears elsewhere in the movie. The Misfits didn't use that image until 1979 but the movie is set in '76.

[@MattPurvis-gt3ww]

@arkwill14 Yeah.....but the Misfits rule - so it's totally alright. 👍

[@chuyitopizana1251]

2:58 idk why it always makes me laugh how they freak out at the sight of O Bannion and his goons

[@UAL012]

4:25 is hilarious. I love the chase scene lol

[@tdpmayhemyt]

They don’t make movies like this anymore… Love this move so much. When I was about to graduate the rave scene was the best it’s ever been. We’d all hit the best rave parties and just party hop until the next weekend and hit the next rave. I miss those days…

[@dejaalston8672]

This scene is so relatable on so many levels. Those we're the days. 😏🤣

[@MattPurvis-gt3ww]

I was in high school when this came out - it seemed to be playing at every party..... even when no one was watching it.

[@nomoreheroes1718]

3:00 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Ben Affleck " whoooooeeee, ducks on a pond. " And then those tires go "screeeeeeeeeeeeeech"!!!!!

[@jonjahr3403]

"Welcome to high school honeey" is something I'd give anything to hear Joey Lauren Adams say to me in that sexy voice of hers.

[@loucontino4804]

Ah, the good ole days. Plenty of laughs, great music, friends and partying. And oh yeah, no shortage of jock a-holes either.

[@davidhuff4562]

I'm not sure kids today have it as safe or as much fun as the old school days

[@davidhuff4562]

@@licensedtoill9278 I agree. I remember guys got into fights at school, but those were with fists and when caught, they took you to the office and you got your butt paddled. We shot rubber bands and spitwads, not guns. Parents instilled discipline at home when you were young and warned you of the consequences when you got home if you misbehaved at school. Yet, it was a safer and more fun/better life/world then.

[@davidhuff4562]

@Rain Eclipse : It was safer because we did have it good. Our parents taught us to be respectful and responsible, the "R-words" more important that "my rights." We didn't bring guns to school to shoot our teachers & classmates or to the grocery store, mall or a parade with intent to harm or terrorize. Parents and school disciplined when we deserved it & supported us & gave a "pat on the back" of pride when we achieved. Yes, those were good days and safer ones because we worked & behaved better to earn them.

[@davidhuff4562]

@Rain Eclipse : I don't disagree. We had problems then too and guess throughout history, every generation had their share of crazy/evil people and events. Having lived through both, I can compare. You don't have to agree, but in my judgment, it was better & safer then, than now.

[@danabarry81]

As a woman, while I love this era, there were also some raging bitches as well as jock a holes…hence Parker Posey’s character. Every school had at least one…

[@rollingedges9469]

I miss the 90's.

[@alexludavertigo6926]

0:33 25 of ye ain’t comin bac!🤣🤣🤣

[@Bobby3038]

graduated 8th grade in 1983. Best time.

[@Flux45]

I live across the street from the “high school”, which is really a middle school, and it still looks almost identical today.

[@TradesInfinite]

I grew up watching this Movie. I'm on the east coast , the worst state nowadays. It makes smile too see a time that was still about making friends , yet having some good old fashion fun No harm done. Show you got heart and the rest is history Much peace We don't have that here at all

[@bryanbuff]

This film and TBC encapsulated growing up like no other has.

[@mannykiller]

only for purv males. Nothing like thus for girls

[@Jacksonk628]

What’s tbc

[@geekwebb]

Greatest film ever made

[@arkwill14]

Never noticed it before. Those two kids who tried to get away on their bikes were caught. You can see them taking their licks at 3:07 in the background.

[@davidhuff4562]

Getting "licks" was part of life then

[@xzekerman]

@@davidhuff4562 to bad they dont do it today.

[@davidhuff4562]

@@xzekerman : I'm not sure the young lads today could endure a butt paddling, be it in fun with peers or the real ones as a method of punishment. Were you paddled growing up?

[@xzekerman]

​@@davidhuff4562 got my fair share off ass smacking for all the bs i done 😅 no kids take great harm of getting smacked few times so they learn😄

[@Krysdavar]

Never noticed that before either until now & have watched this movie (more than) several times since it came out. I guess I don't pay attention to background stuff but this time I did lol.

[@MagnitudeReviews]

Love this film.

[@MattPurvis-gt3ww]

*"Mr Pain....sir."*

[@hannahmeyers9471]

I love Parker posey so much 🥰

[@Weshopwizard]

Dimples

[@elbracho1339]

Imagine the look on the janitor’s face…..

[@Dynamatrix1973]

Nothing a garden hose couldn't fix.

[@sheeeitmayn4384]

This movie makes me so proud to be American lol. I mean, I grew up in the 90's/2000's but we had our own spin on this in Alaska.

[@Bone89]

The only ritual that happened at my school was upperclassmen dumping freshman and 8th graders. Dumping was grabbing the kids after dark and driving out in the country a few miles and they would have to walk back to town. Usually u would get a couple beers to enjoy on the walk back. This is small town. Farm kids. U left ur keys in car with windows rolled down. Never locked ur house. Get pulled over for drinking, they poured out the beers and told u to go straight home or they were calling ur parents. I bought beer at the liquor store as a freshman convincing the lady I was a trucker. She never carded me all through high school. No curfews. 89’

[@szzk7937]

That's what I heard from people the most.

[@paulrash8861]

Ducks on the pond,...how ya doing boys😂😂😂

[@JRC99]

Benny's truck sounds _so_ fucking good

[@kindtimetraveler]

Actually went to that school for 3rd - 6th grades. Georgetown, Texas baybeee!!!! We all fantasized about sliding down that fire escape, man. If there hadn’t been alarms & child-proof locks on the windows, believe me, we would have…consequences be damned!!!! 😝

[@simshengvue4642]

I was from the 90s and we still did this. It was done to me in 6th grade by our middle schoolers and at 8th grade by high schoolers. We did it too. We didn’t go this far though. We just egged people and put shaving cream on them, then covered them in toilet paper

[@jillconner5062]

Yeah I started H.S. in 94. And freshman still got fucked with pretty bad! Not beat with paddles like you said. It was all good because it built character in the end. And made you tougher. You had to fend for yourself. No safe spaces. But no school shootings either!

[@jordanhicks5131]

We had "freshman friday" where after the first assembly welcoming the incoming freshman we would catch em and trash can them. Nothing serious, just stick em butt first into a trash can so they cant get out without help

[@wteverisgud]

One of my top 5 of all time, i watch this every few years and it never gets old.

[@FMB2X]

It builds character

[@joemcguire9988]

I like how the senior girl was so appalled by that senior guy degrading the freshman girl, I mean yes it was appalling but she’s the one who go put the girl in that position, she’s the facilitator. Would she have preferred if he didn’t play along? What did she want here?

[@insight1428]

Yes but most of the senior girls weren’t taking the degrading seriously and were actually being understanding. The only senior girl taking it 100% seriously was Darla.

[@reginalatson79]

These girls also volunteered to be hazed, or were hand selected by the popular girls….

[@edwardfetner2513]

its more of a "g check" then her being appalled

[@joshelley1062]

Another 90s classic you just can't replace it hell I live in seguin texas I live right up the road from the robo car wash where they filmed the car wash scene

[@rico6969cool]

I love how the girls hazing is so much more brutal than the boys

[@davidhuff4562]

Girls can be tough on each other too and bully as any boy might. Guys use to think girls should've been subjected to the school paddle equal to how guys got it. I'm not sure I would've wanted to overhear a girl being paddled. I suspect there would be yelps and crying. Were you hazed at some point or subjected to physical punishment at school or home growing up?

[@Dynamatrix1973]

Not really, the boys had to endure emotional and physical trauma, and would have to dodge these guys everyday in high school. That's a lot of fear. The girls were only humiliated mildly and covered with condiments(big woop).

[@crpggamer]

@@Dynamatrix1973 I agree. The paddle is scary the hands of some crazy teen boys.

[@chrisagurs8377]

Cause girls hate each other but men, we know how to be friends

[@edwardfetner2513]

@@Dynamatrix1973 but once the paddling happens you are officially "initiated" and they woill give you a pass against other kids, get you into a few parties, etc. it happens to Mitch and Sabrina

[@davidkeeton6716]

OBanion was perfectly cast. Actually they all were.

[@danglesnipecelly13]

One of the greatest movies ever! Such a fckn classic! A movie I can watch over and over and never get sick of. I feel like I’m hanging out with them every time I watch this.

[@frilsonboogers]

This movie was filmed at my school lol

[@nick54372]

Those kids are about to go to the train station😂😂😂

[@MothersGreen420]

When the world rocked.

[@ianbappe1174]

The absolute best

[@tristramcoffin926]

In military school they just kicked our asses for a semester. At least I didn't fall for the Chinese Sit Up.

[@user-tk1jj1cp9x]

This movie had way too much influence on me as a teenager ❤

[@georgehollingsworth2428]

They came for me and my best friend at Graduation in 1975. This was fairly normal in High Schools in the area except that they only had "Open Season" on us for a few days. Our teachers let us bail early, and we hid out in my house with guns until they gave up. Normally, if they did not give you licks, they would throw you in the most polluted bayou in the town, : It was literally named "Turd Bayou". and itt lived up to its name.

[@neilsaunders3933]

Why can't we be friends 🎶 I love this song and movie

[@tbh791]

"Soul Pole" 🤣🤣🤣

[@theofficialgreenkane9645]

5:15 the way Carl says “moOm” was cringe 😂

[@D21403]

Parker Posey Darla !!!

[@AndroidDreams2049]

feels like the entire Kevin Smith cast in this this awesome movie

[@paulhowson8744]

Welcome to HIGHSCHOOL CLASS OF 1987. GEN-X STYLE. 😁😄😂🤣 TUFF-n- UP BUTTERCUP'S!!

[@tomboro9211]

Classic movie fun times

[@nolby1758]

"whoooooeeyyy,ducks on the pond!!"

[@isma6050]

My biggest flex is that this movie was filmed and my school bedicheck

[@jawswasnevermyscene4258]

Damn Parker , she's impressive

[@betod3113]

Lol all the freshmen kids running 🏃 older ones..

[@shaunsloan3616]

Haha. wish we had trucks like that in London

[@jordanhicks5131]

They wouldn't fit on half the streets lol, your neighbors would hate you haha

[@thesean3194]

….MEN!… love that step back well done.

[@alanisgirl2022]

My parents graduated from high school back in the seventies when they were teenagers.

[@jtudor9869]

Rip Wheeler is alive and well in Austin, TX in 1976... driving a pickup to bust azzz with a paddle.

[@kat35lulu88]

Ah the good old days......

[@betod3113]

Dalm obannion and the rest of them hella run fast weren't they all in football 🏈

[@HowardFreeman-lo9uf]

I see Paperboy's!!!

[@AlexCastro1]

love that chevy c10

[@mj7947]

Favorite film 🎥 get out the popcorn 🍿 and ENJOY 😉

[@CerebralAssassin1977]

How you doin boys? Love it!

[@GetSoberWithMe]

3:03 When that 72( i think) chevy gets on it takin off after mitch and em fishtailing gets my blood goin everytime...same when they're racin (hope u got woodscrews im gon blow your doors off)

[@postyyy3258]

This happened back then I thought this happened in college 😂

[@eatassonthefirstdate]

literally one of my top 10 of all time. easily ahead of up in smoke or half baked, literally up there with Blow, Goodfellas, Scarface, Pulp Fiction etc their budget was SO SMALL, the movie studio didnt even wanna put this out after they saw the final product. the original cut was OVER 2 hours long, they cut like 45 mins of footage and they cut out SO MANY GOOD SCENES 😢

[@glendoucette624]

Funny Movie did not expect the teacher to respond like that

[@mountainmamanirvana31]

SCHOOL'S OUT LITTLE 🐺! YOU ENJOY THIS SUMMER ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@miguelangelalvarezagudo1719]

Very good

[@justinsantos8514]

American Graffiti, Dazed And Confused, American pie, American pie 2, and Superbad are the staples of American Life as a teenager in film. Teenage life will never be like that again...

[@mactek6033]

The only freshmen initiation my HS did was make the guy band members dress up in dresses, makeup, and wigs the entire day of the first pep rally.

[@Britneymarie-re3bb]

What the freshmans at are school needs so displne.

[@rebeccaborders9327]

Of All Time😝☺️

[@jmcuzzupe84]

I’ve never seen so much hazing in a film.

[@jamesweikel2594]

Both my parents graduated in 76' I remember watching this with them when it came out...did you seriously dress like that lol

[@AKAPhilfish]

My dad is a bicentennial graduate too. I asked him the same and he said maybe in Texas, but not Missouri. I don't believe him lol.

[@davidhuff4562]

Not just dress like that, but you ask if they behaved that way?

[@GeorgeSpencer985]

@@davidhuff4562 I graduated in 1977 in NYS and it’s very accurate. We had the sorority’s that acted like that too with initiations. Dress, the kids, keg parties and cars. It’s uncannily accurate.

[@davidhuff4562]

@@GeorgeSpencer985 : I too remember the 70s era and it is accurate.

[@danieleyre8913]

Your parents must've had you pretty early. I was born in 1978, my parents finished their schooling in the 1960s. I saw this first when I was 15 in late 1993. The fashions didn't look that far out to me because there had been a lot of rerun television from the late 70's and early 80s when I was growing up (and still was at that time) and because I'd seen a lot of films made in the 70s (like Carrie and Halloween and Dawn of the Dead) and because 70s fashion was doing a retro' rehash in 1993.

[@ogrish76]

0:56 yesterday's wackiness is today's normal lol.

[@marcmaza2821]

5:14 😂😂😂

[@btownmxer]

Haha imagine doing this shit today. All the Karen’s moms would be filing assault charges and putting their kids on ptsd medication

[@JRC99]

It's almost like beating kids for no fucking reason other than "im older than you" is a really shitty thing to do.

[@Tizoc69]

No they wouldn’t - Shit like this still happens quit trying to act like are you talking about some golden era good ol days bullshit 🤣🤣🤣

[@themroc2]

Again someone who longs for the old times kzbin.info/www/bejne/m6fbZaV8eKlroM0

[@davidhuff4562]

It wasn't thought of assault then. Today the trauma and possible need for PTSD meds would result because many kids have not been held responsible for their actions and corrected when needed. Apparently a swat on their butt would traumatize them.

[@Joe-ww5qf]

@@themroc2 We're talking about the 70s, not the bloody slave era..

[@Unfluencer]

back when kids were tough, smart and happy. todays kids...lol!!!!!!

[@jeffwillauer94]

Back when high school was fun.

[@davidhuff4562]

Were you paddle initiated?

[@jeffwillauer94]

@David Huff yup. Then the seniors took me out and got me drunk. Didnt help i had an older sister tell them i was a freshmen

[@davidhuff4562]

@@jeffwillauer94 : As a freshman, probably being 14, which was worse, the paddle initiation or getting drunk? I guess older siblings, especially a sister, would do that. I was a HS freshman when I got my first school paddling and no fun initiation, though some thought an "initiation" I was overdue. Did you later initiation freshman?

[@jeffwillauer94]

@@davidhuff4562 No because by then the cops were cracking down on it.

[@davidhuff4562]

@@jeffwillauer94 : I never wanted to come home drunk, nor have police call parents to pick me up or police deliver me home. My dad tolerated some stuff & I got warnings & second chance, that probably needed some 'butt therapy.' Dad introduced beer & wine at home at age appropriate, so I wouldn't be tempted to drink with buddies when out. If permitted would you have initiated the freshmen? Best friends gave lost bet/game swats and birthday ritual spanking but no upperclassmen paddle initiations. Did your parents use a paddle for punishment?

[@ralphphillips2232]

its funny how they had to gather all these vintage cars for the scene, but the school buses? nope, just use the same ones on the road today, no difference.

[@6eatrice_]

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