Reality Bites
The movie follows Lelaina, an aspiring videographer working on a documentary called Reality Bites about the disenfranchised lives of her friends and roommates. When Lelaina meets Michael, an earnest video executive who takes her homemade video to his MTV-like station, she must decide what she values, the materialism of yuppie Michael or the philosophical musings of Troy.
14 November 1940, USA
12 February 1936, Groesbeck, Texas, USA
29 February 1960, Glendora, California, USA
19 October 1969, Tarrant County, Texas, USA
28 September 1964, Newton, New Jersey, USA
30 November 1965, New York City, New York, USA
April 20, 1970 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
February 25, 2014
Gone is the fearless savagery Stiller smuggled into his TV series. Stuck between slacker and attacker, he settles for something curiously inert, slavishly mainstream and so hopelessly phony its own characters might make fun of it between bong rips.
March 27, 2013
The screenplay by newcomer Helen Childress falls back on familiar formulas too often, but first-time director Ben Stiller keeps the action fast and involving even when you can't help guessing what the next story twist will be.
March 27, 2013
It's a good example of an anti-establishment comedy crippled by a seeming desire to infatuate the establishment itself. What Reality Bites needs most is a good bite. From reality.
March 27, 2013
The best -- the brilliant -- bits of Reality Bites etch in epigram, anecdote and brittle, dazzling dialogue the inner life of young people who want desperately to believe but haven't decided in what.
March 27, 2013
When the movie is over, you don't feel as if you had shared the experience of a new generation; you feel puzzled and vaguely crummy, as if you had just read a solemn news-magazine cover story about it.
March 27, 2013
However conventional Reality Bites resolves to be, it is always engaging. Best of all, Ryder has her greatest role since Heathers, once again proving herself a seriously funny young actress.
September 07, 2011
Yearning, hilarious, lost within their precocious self-awareness, these slackers have soul.
March 27, 2013
Among the movie's strengths are the performances, especially that of Ryder, who comes across as bright, beautiful and more delicate than ever before.
August 28, 2013
For all its faults, this still has moments of hip charm.
January 02, 2011
Comedy about 20-something slackers isn't for kids.
August 28, 2013
Ryder and Hawke bring crucial authenticity to their roles with effortless appeal. You'll find yourself wanting more of these characters than the movie gives you.
March 27, 2013
The smart script by 23-year-old newcomer Helen Childress doesn't lose sight of the characters and the issues that affect them and other young adults.
