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Reality Bites 1994
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Ben Stiller's directorial debut was this sporadically successful twentysomething comedy that tries too hard to codify the generational experience of its young adult characters. Winona Ryder plays a still-unformed woman struggling with career and relationship issues, Janeane Garofalo portrays her best friend, and Ethan Hawke and Stiller play the two lovers pursuing her. The story is as also about generation-X confusion over how to get by in a hand-me-down world with not much to get excited about, a world filled with a pop culture currency of bad music and poetry slams. The film's chief strength is its appealing cast, which is bolstered by...
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I am continuing my examination of the "slacker" genre with this film and I was pleasantly surprised. While Jeneane Garofalo stole every scene she was in, I thought that Winona Ryder was fantastic and, along with Ethan Hawke, epitomized this genre.
She was the driven one, the one with dreams, and he was the classic...
(complete Reality Bites review by Movie Addict)
The first film I ever bought with my own money is this biting comedy about life after college. Ben Stiller made his directorial debut in this story concerning Winona Ryder's Lelaina who is torn between Michael, the semi-pretentious MTV exec played by Stiller himself, and Troy, the slacker-genius played by Ethan Hawke,...
(complete Reality Bites review by Jessica Film Junkie)
| Reality Bites Movie Review by Zara (1/26/2007) |
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I'm one of those people who was born at a time where I can claim to be a product of the '80's or the '90's. You know, that horrible generation known as X. This flick was the pinnacle of what was going on in the early '90's, complete with the upswing of casual sex (provided there was protection) and the false assumption...
(complete Reality Bites review by Zara)
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