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Reality Bites (1994)

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Calificación de los usuarios: 6.2/10 (14,233 votes)
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Overview

Director:
Ben Stiller
Guionista (WGA):
Helen Childress (written by)
Release Date:
18 febrero 1994 (USA) más
Genre:
Comedy | Drama | Romance más
Frase comercial:
A comedy about love in the '90s.
Plot:
Generation X Graduates face life after college with a filmmaker looking for work and love in Houston. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
1 nomination más
Comentarios de los usuarios:
Reality or not? más

Cast

 (Cast overview, first billed only)

Winona Ryder ... Lelaina Pierce

Ethan Hawke ... Troy Dyer

Janeane Garofalo ... Vickie Miner

Steve Zahn ... Sammy Gray

Ben Stiller ... Michael Grates

Swoosie Kurtz ... Charlane McGregor
Harry O'Reilly ... Wes McGregor
Susan Norfleet ... Helen Anne Pierce
Joe Don Baker ... Tom Pierce

Renée Zellweger ... Tami (as Renee Zellweger)
James Rothenberg ... Rick

John Mahoney ... Grant Gubler
Eric Morgan Stuart ... Damien (as Eric Stuart)

Barry Del Sherman ... Grant's Producer (as Barry Sherman)

Chelsea Lagos ... Troy Groupie
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Additional Details

También conocida como:
Bocados de realidad (Spain) [es]
Dura realidad, La (Venezuela) [es]
Reality Bites (Argentina) [es]
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Duración:
99 min | Australia:94 min
País:
USA
Idioma:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 más
Sonido:
DTS
Filming Locations:
Houston, Texas, USA más
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Company:
Jersey Films más

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Trivialidades:
Dave Pirner, Soul Asylum front-man and boy-friend of Winona Ryder during that time, is visible in some of the "home-made" videos. más
Goofs:
Continuity: Troy takes his guitar off twice before going on a break at the club. más
Quotes:
Vickie: I truly believe that if we can get two women on the supreme court, we can get at least one on you. más
Movie Connections:
Referenced in "Howard Stern on Demand: Lisa Loeb & Sister" (2006) más
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10 out of 16 people found the following comment useful:-
Reality or not?, 13 July 2004
7/10
Author: Clara B.

I rented this movie knowing it wasn't really a comedy but a drama about the life of people in their early twenties in the 90's. What pushed me to rent it was the fact that many people qualified this film as horrible, but many other people loved this film and were talking about it like it was the most realistic thing ever.

Let's face it. I'm not going to pretend to know what it's like to be a teenager/young adult in the 90's since I was 9 years old when this movie came out. However, I think I have a good enough judgement to tell if this movie was realistic or not based on my personal experiences.

This movie isn't specially about the 90's, it's about "becoming an adult" and all it implies. It's about a cast of characters who hesitate between forever living what they were told is a pointless life [always having fun and bumming around] and becoming like the adults that they have criticized so much in their childhood. This, by itself, is very realistic, because it's a problem that many young people face even today. The main character Lalaina represents this fact completely. She's shooting a video of her friends as they struggle to find themselves in this world that was built by baby-boomers that they can't relate to. Also, she's a very clean-cut and hard working person, yet she hangs out with her friends who are more of the "rebellious" type.

This movie tries to represent the "alternative" crowd. Each character in this movie has an "alternative" as well as a "conformist" side, which is very strange. By example, you have a female character who wears vintage clothes and lives in a typical artsy room but works at the gap. This is another side of what was mentioning earlier. As young adults, they're straying away from the whole "alternative-ness" of their teenage years. This is something I've seen among people I know as well, and that I personally dislike. I guess it's something very typical of our era as well as the 90's.

What I found unrealistic in this movie was that the characters seem a bit cliché sometimes. Sure, I've seen people like that. But the personalities in the movie are too simplified. By example, there's the guy who always is slacking around doing nothing because he feels that having a full-time job until you retire is like wasting your life. Okay, but what else? What type of person is this guy, really? Also.. Each of the characters seem to act the way they do because they come from broken homes, which isn't very realistic in my opinion... The video that the main character has made is supposed to make their viewers know her friends and herself, but we don't really get to know them by watching the entire movie.

Overall, I thought it was an enjoyable movie. I liked the atmosphere of it. It also wasn't always predictable. I gave this movie a 7 because I liked it even though I disliked some of it's aspects.

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