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Reality Bites

Winona Ryder and Ethan Hawke
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Overview

Lelaina Pierce (Winona Ryder) faces life after college, using a video documentary about her confused and drifting friends to advance her ambitions in the entertainment industry. When a video executive (Ben Stiller, also making his directorial debut) becomes romantically interested in her, she is forced to choose between her slacker boyfriend (Ethan Hawke) and the big cruel world of adulthood lurking ahead.

Awards:

Main Cast & Crew:
Ben Stiller - Director
Winona Ryder
Ethan Hawke
Ben Stiller
Janeane Garofalo
Swoosie Kurtz
Joe Don Baker
John Mahoney
Steve Zahn
Andy Dick
Keith David

Details

    DVD Format
  • Format: DVD (Anniversary Edition, Widescreen)
  • Run Time: 99
  • Color Format: Color
  • UPC: 025192382727
  • Genre: COMEDIES
  • Rating: PG-13 (MPAA) (some language, drug content, and sensuality)
  • Release Date: June 2004

Movie Reviews

Synopsis:
An intelligent young college grad-gone-filmmaker decides to make a movie about some of her confused and struggling twentysomething friends. Along the way, she tries to figure out the answers to her own quandaries about life, love and work.

Notes:
Screenwriter Helen Childress was 23 years old at the time of writing. Video sequences by James Jones. Feature film directing debut for Ben Stiller. Copyright 1994 Universal City Studios, Inc.

Reviews:
"...Genuinely smart and funny..." - 07/01/1994 Sight and Sound, p.50-1


"...SLACKER without the slackness, intentionally commercial and breezily entertaining....A spectacular cast..." - 02/18/1994 New York Times, p.C3


"...Tenderly funny..." -- Rating: A - 03/11/1994 Entertainment Weekly, p.42


"...A romantic comedy that is cheerful, edgy and alive..." - 02/18/1994 Los Angeles Times, p.F1


"REALITY BITES is a touchstone for anyone just out of college and stuck with more ideals than job prospects..." - 07/08/2004 Rolling Stone, p.138

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