Director: George Lucas
Aren't we due for another one of these movies? American Graffiti came out in 1973 and was about kids in 1962. Dazed and Confused came out in 1993 and was set in 1976. Soon enough, there should be a movie about the last days of high school set between the years between 1995 and 2003.
American Graffiti and its blatant nostalgia masks the fact that the film's characters themselves are trying vainly to hold on to something even as it is falling away. Like Dazed and Confused, there isn't really a plot - things happen, sure, but it's all very loose; the conflicts aren't defined right away, they tend to emerge organically out of the characters' mere existence and interaction with one another.
As a sidenote, the characters seem to have contempt for the town they're thinking about leaving, but everything seems to be open 24 hours a day and there seems to be stuff to do at all hours of the night - I don't see the problem with it.
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