Reality Bites 10th Anniversary Edition (1993)

"...a tender, irreverent romance...  Rita Kempley, Washington Post
"Hawke captures all the right notes... Ryder has her character nailed down...  Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

Editor's Note 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.

	Andy Dick
	Ben Stiller
	Ethan Hawke
	Janeane Garofalo
	Renee Zellweger
	Winona Ryder
	Ben Stiller - Director
	Danny DeVito - Producer
	Emmanuel Lubezki - Cinematographer
	Helen Childress - Screenplay
	John Spence - Editor
	Karl Wallinger - Original Music By
	Lisa Churgin - Editor
	Michael Shamberg - Producer

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

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

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

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

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

Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide 7 of 10
An incisive examination of Generation X, whose young people are confused, and repelled by the world