Reality Bites

(1994)

★ 6.5 IMDb · 813 votes

Genres: Drama, Romance, Comedy

Year: 1994

Runtime: 98 мин

Country: United States of America

Director: Бен Стиллер

Cast: Вайнона Райдер, Итан Хоук, Джанин Гарофало, Стив Зан, Бен Стиллер, Свузи Кёрц, Harry O'Reilly, Susan Norfleet, Джо Дон Бейкер, Рене Зеллвегер

Plot

A small circle of friends suffering from post-collegiate blues must confront the hard truth about life, love and the pursuit of gainful employment. As they struggle to map out survival guides for the future, the Gen-X quartet soon begins to realize that reality isn't all it's cracked up to be.

In this study of Generation X manners, Lelaina Pierce (Winona Ryder), the valedictorian of her college class, camcords her friends in a mock documentary of posteducation life. Troy Dyer (Ethan Hawke) is her best friend, a perpetually unemployed musical slacker. Vickie Miner (Janeane Garofalo) is a manager at the Gap who worries about the results of an A.I.D.S. test, while Sammy Gray (Steve Zahn) has problems grappling with his sexuality. When Lelaina meets Michael Grates (Ben Stiller), 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.