Reality Bites (1994)
Genre: Drama / Comedy
Duration: 99 minuten
Country:
United States
Directed by: Ben Stiller
Stars: Winona Ryder, Ethan Hawke and Ben Stiller
IMDb score:
6,6 (57.211)
Releasedate: 18 February 1994
Reality Bites plot
"A comedy about love in the '90s"
Lelaine films her friends with a camera to make a documentary about life after their studies. Troy, a mostly unemployed musician, is her best friend. When Lelaina meets Michael, a producer who sells her videos to an MTV-style station, she must choose what she wants: the materialism of the yuppie Michael or the philosophical ideals of Troy.
Actors and actresses
Lelaina Pierce
Troy Dyer
Vickie Miner
Sammy Gray
Michael Grates
Charlane McGregor
Wes McGregor
Helen Anne Pierce
Tom Pierce
Tami
Reviews & comments
gotti
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- 14076 messages
- 5901 votes
Pretty nice. Just a little too simple sometimes...
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BlueVelvet
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- 1316 messages
- 785 votes
A fourth message after this one has been on TV 
A successful film as far as I'm concerned. Winona Ryder is very attractive and charming, I've always been a small fan of Ethan Hawke anyway (and I liked this role as (quasi-?) intellectual philosopher/artist), and Ben Stiller isn't annoying for once. Of course it's all pretty standard (at least nowadays), but it kept me interested.
A true 3.5* movie.
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Onderhond
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- 87623 messages
- 12890 votes
Not good.
In itself nothing more than the umpteenth romcom, only the central duo here is almost insufferable. I don't know what else it is, but as a child of the 90s I couldn't do anything with this (r?). A lot of affective whine from a group of posers, I often couldn't make more of it.
Stiller's role is ultimately the best, Zahn is just a footnote and actually represents more of a theme (homosexuality) than a real character. Just the same for that shady girlfriend of Ryder's.
Ryder and especially Hawke are all over the place, but the ending is inevitable and the way everything is suddenly resolved betrays the true nature of this film.
Nah, not my thing. It was funny every now and then and there is enough going on that the film doesn't really come to a halt, but that whole whiny 90s generation thing could be stolen from me.
1.5*
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