DAZED AND CONFUSED Cast Reuniting For Special Alamo Drafthouse Screenings

Apr 14

If you’ve always wanted to see Dazed and Confused on the big screen your in luck. Alamo Drafthouse is hosting special screenings around the world of the iconic film beginning the week of 4/20 along with a reunion of cast members Matthew McConaughey, Parker Posey, and director Richard Linklater — via Zoom — in a pre-recorded conversation to be shown with the film hosted by Jack Black.

The Dazed and Confused Cast Reunion is the second of Alamo Drafthouse’s “Support Local Cinemas” events that are being shown only in theaters. The initiative launched earlier this month with The Lord of the Rings Cast Reunion, and is part of an effort to get moviegoers to return to the theaters.

“As founder and artistic director of the Austin Film Society, I know firsthand that community cinemas like ours are vital cultural spaces,” said Richard Linklater. “It’s important for everyone to do their part to ensure that theaters can make it to the other side of this pandemic. We can’t come together as a community unless we have places to gather where we can share experiences, and cinemas are at the heart of that.”

If you’re not familiar with the 1993 cult classic, Dazed and Confused is set on the last day of school in 1976, and follows a collection of high schoolers and incoming freshmen as they attend keg parties, play mailbox baseball, and cruise around Austin, Texas. The film was McConaughey’s first prominent role. Parker Posey played the queen bee of the senior class. And Linklater, who had scored with the low-budget Slacker, announced himself as an exciting new force in filmmaking.

As vaccination levels rise across the country, Alamo Drafthouse will continue to offer one-of-a-kind special events like The Lord of the Rings and Dazed and Confused events as a 'welcome back' for guests to safely return to their local movie theaters. Future "Support Local Cinema" events will be produced by Alamo Drafthouse and the content made available to any cinema in the world at no cost.

"We've found the movies that resonate the most during COVID are warm, nostalgic, feel-good titles that we refer to as 'eminently re-watchable'," says Tim League, Alamo Drafthouse Founder and Executive Chairman. "Perhaps the king of our rewatchable cult favorite movies is Richard Linklater's Dazed and Confused, and I'm delighted that Richard Linklater, Matthew McConaughey, Parker Posey, and Jack Black are giving us their time for this event."

Screenings of Dazed and Confused begin Tuesday, April 20th and will continue through the end of May in cinemas worldwide. The special screenings will also be available as Your Own Private Alamo bookings — a ‘personal theater’ option where you can reserve a showing for your family and friends. And if you can’t make it out to the theater safely yet, the reunion conversations will be shared online via Alamo On Demand later this year.

You can get tickets for Dazed and Confused online now at drafthouse.com.