MOVIE · 1994

Reality Bites

ComedyDramaRomance99 min

Lelaina is an aspiring videographer in Houston, filming a homemade documentary about her friends as they fumble through the first stretch of life after college. Winona Ryder is Lelaina, juggling job-hunt disappointments, a shifting love life, and a roommate circle that includes Ethan Hawke’s Troy, a sharp-tongued slacker, and Janeane Garofalo’s Vickie, who faces adulthood with less illusion than the rest. As work, romance, and ambition start pulling them in different directions, the film turns their post-grad uncertainty into a portrait of early-’90s Gen-X life.