<P> The title of the film is derived from the Led Zeppelin version of the song of the same name . Linklater approached the surviving members of Led Zeppelin for permission to use their song "Rock and Roll" in the film, but while Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones agreed, Robert Plant refused . </P> <P> It is May 28, 1976, the last day of school at Lee High School in the suburbs of Austin, Texas . The next year's group of seniors are preparing for the annual hazing of incoming freshmen . Randall "Pink" Floyd (Jason London), the school's star football player, is asked to sign a pledge promising not to take drugs during the summer or do anything that would "jeopardize the goal of a championship season". When classes end, the incoming freshman boys are hunted down by the seniors and paddled . The incoming freshman girls are also hazed; they are rounded up in the school parking lot by senior girls, covered in mustard, ketchup, flour and raw eggs, and forced to propose to senior boys . </P> <P> Freshman Mitch Kramer (Wiley Wiggins) escapes the initial hazing with his best friend Carl Burnett (Esteban Powell), but is later cornered after a baseball game and violently paddled . Fred O'Bannion (Ben Affleck), a senior participating in the hazing tradition for a second year after failing to graduate, delights in punishing Mitch . Pink gives the injured Mitch a ride home and offers to take him cruising with friends that night . Plans for the evening are ruined when Kevin Pickford's (Shawn Andrews) parents discover his intention to host a keg party . Elsewhere, the intellectual trio of Cynthia Dunn (Marissa Ribisi), Tony Olson (Anthony Rapp), and Mike Newhouse (Adam Goldberg) decide to participate in the evening's activities . Pink and his friend David Wooderson (Matthew McConaughey), a man in his early 20s who still socializes with high school students, pick up Mitch and head for the Emporium, a pool hall frequented by teenagers . </P> <P> As the evening progresses, students loiter around the Emporium, listen to rock music, cruise the neighborhood and stop at the hamburger drive - in . Mitch is introduced to sophomore Julie Simms (Catherine Avril Morris), with whom he shares a mutual attraction . While cruising again with Pink, Pickford, and Don Dawson (Sasha Jenson), Mitch drinks beer and smokes marijuana for the first time . After a game of mailbox baseball, a neighborhood resident brandishing a gun threatens to call the police . They barely escape after the resident fires at their car . After returning to the Emporium, Mitch runs into his middle school friends . They hatch a plan to get revenge on O'Bannion . The plan culminates with them dumping paint on O'Bannion, who leaves in a fit of rage . </P>

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