Every Ben Affleck Movie Ranked From Worst To Best

2. Dazed & Confused (1993)

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Gramercy Pictures

Richard Linklater's iconic 1993 coming-of-age comedy Dazed and Confused is famous for helping launch the careers of so many future stars, including not only Affleck but Milla Jovovich, Parker Posey, Adam Goldberg, Matthew McConaughey, Joey Lauren Adams, and Renée Zellweger.

This just might be the hangout movie, focusing on a group of Texas teens on the last day of school in 1976, and delivering all the chaos and hilarity that you'd expect.

Everyone knows those feelings of the last day of school - the sun-kissed euphoria, the goofing off, and the belief that literally anything can happen - captured so expertly here within Linklater's loose tapestry.

Affleck may only play a small role as a**hole bully Fred O'Bannion, but as with everybody else here he knocks it out of the park.

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