Their challenges exemplify some of the career and lifestyle choices faced by Generation X.Ĭoffee-house guitarist Troy Dyer and budding filmmaker Lelaina Pierce are attracted to each other, although they have not acted on their feelings except for one brief, drunken encounter. But what it is, is good enough.The plot follows Lelaina (Ryder), an aspiring videographer working on a documentary called Reality Bites about the disenchanted lives of her friends and roommates. Overall, there's really nothing wrong with Reality Bites, except that maybe was trying to be more than it really is. They've been friends for years, and could always talk to each other, but under the surface, there is something more between them. His character is one of the love interests of Winona Ryder's character.

He isn't one of my favorite actors out there, but I think he is a highly underrated actor. This might possibly be the best performance I've ever seen from Hawke. The best part of this movie happens to be Ethan Hawke as Troy. There's a lot of dialogue about their concerns on life, on what to do, and on who to love or how to love. One works at the GAP, one works as a helping hand on a tv show, one is gay, and one is a genius, that is too smart to actually make a difference in the world. But don't be too bummed that your film didn't quite make it the extra mile you wanted it to, because you still have a highly enjoyable and pretty well made Romantic Dramedy.įour friends are now out of college and living together. As a character in the movie says, 'The world doesn't owe you any favors.' I'm sure Stiller would love to think that this film is anything more than a romantic comedy, but at the heart, that's all it is. And they'll have to do it all by themselves. They will have to put up with shit, just so they can pay the rent. No, they will have to deal with people that are hard to work with. The real world isn't the walk in the park they thought it would be. It's all about a quartet of friends getting out of college and realizing that the world may not actually be their oyster. Basically, it's a lot like Linklater's Suburbia. I can't sit here and say that Reality Bites is as important a film as it seems everybody involved thought it was. I just saw that it was comedy directed by Ben Stiller, that had an excellent cast including: Winona Ryder, Ethan Hawke and Steve Zahn and that was enough for me. I didn't really know what I was getting myself into with Reality Bites, plot wise.

I may do mean things, and I may hurt you, and I may run away without your permission, and you may hate me forever, and I know that scares the living shit outta you 'cause you know I'm the only real thing you got.

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