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Ben Stiller made his feature directing debut with Reality Bites, a fresh, irreverant romantic comedy about life and love for post-Baby-Boomers. It's graduation day, 1994, and Lelaina Pierce is taking her first, bold step into the final frontier - reality. Unfortunately, her future seems to have moved away without leaving a .. Read more

Starring	Ben Stiller, Winona Ryder, Ethan Hawke, Janeane Garofalo
Director	Ben Stiller
Genres	Comedy, Drama

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- Up-to-the-minute details of life among the recently 20, but so timely in its references it already seems old-fashioned; its love story is very familiar, though it may seem new to the recently adult.
- 32625
- - Halliwell's Film Guide
  - 02 Mar 2006 at 15:42
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- - 8
  - 0
  My Sherona!!!!!
  
  This is my favourite film of all time with an equally wicked old school indie soundtrack.
  
  Its one of those super hip films which doesnt take itself... read more »
  
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- 141965
- [Highly rated reviewer]
  - a customer
  - england
  - 19 Aug 2005 at 17:50
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- - 0
  - 0
  I'm late for a jean-folding seminar. Let's locomote!
  
  Forgot how much i love this film, a 90's classic!
  
  Has a great soundtrack and is worth the 4 stars alone for the my sharona dancing scene!
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- 906481
- - becmc
  - 15 reviews
  - Wakefield
  - 18 Jul 2010 at 22:42
- - 0
  - 0
  reality bites
  
  this whole film has something diversely perverse and pretentious about it. maybe thats because its your stereotypical early 90's teen rebelion film. I like ... read more »
  
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- 862405
- [Highly rated reviewer]
  - bubgirl1984
  - 62 reviews
  - Brighton
  - 16 Feb 2010 at 17:16
- - 0
  - 0
  Still my favourite movie of all time
  
  This film is one that you had to live through, if you saw it now for the first time it wouldn't sem great but when it first came out the soundtrack was ... read more »
  
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- 860412
- - CathS
  - 11 reviews
  - Ruislip
  - 11 Feb 2010 at 17:22
- - 0
  - 0
  Not out of date
  
  A dated movie. Based in the post eighties crash, hopelessness and powerlessness grind down the spirit of the young and naive. Still topical.
  
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- - Goggs
  - 30 reviews
  - Edinburgh
  - 28 Apr 2009 at 15:55
- - 0
  - 0
  reality bites
  
  U2's music has never been used to greater affect and film very funny not for the under thirty's.
  
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  - Swindon
  - 26 Apr 2008 at 10:42
- - 0
  - 0
  "Laney, sex is the quickest way to ruin a friendship."
  
  After graduating from film school, a young girl finds herself attracting the attention of two guys who couldn't be more different - a cynical, suited studio... read more »
  
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- 515567
- - nated23
  - 175 reviews
  - Birmingham
  - 20 Jan 2008 at 20:11
- - 0
  - 0
  As good as it was all those years ago....
  
  I remember seeing this at the cinema many years ago and wanted to refresh my memory. I still found it enjoyable although Winona Ryder's character was just ... read more »
  
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  - Poole, Dorset
  - 03 Apr 2007 at 09:32
- - 0
  - 0
  Curiosity or how to kill 90 minutes
  
  Just a curiosity, no more than that, to see Ben Stiller directing and acting on the same movie. Not really a comedy, I would say it is more a drama but not very... read more »
  
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- - Jorge Gomez
  - Manchester, England
  - 23 Aug 2006 at 10:33
- - 0
  - 0
  I'm sure it was good at the time...
  
  But now it's just like an overwritten love story. Good parts and if you ignore hammy ryder, the rest are good actors... might as well watch it but don't... read more »
  
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- 232406
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  - london, England
  - 13 Apr 2006 at 10:01
- - 0
  - 0
  Yawn!!!
  
  Oh dear oh dear - this was in my 'recommendations' which i normally don't pay much attention to, but thought this might have the potential of being ... read more »
  
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- - a customer
  - Monmouth, UK
  - 07 Oct 2005 at 17:21
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- - 8
  - 0
  My Sherona!!!!!
  
  This is my favourite film of all time with an equally wicked old school indie soundtrack.
  
  Its one of those super hip films which doesnt take itself... read more »
  
  Report this review
- 141965
- [Highly rated reviewer]
  - a customer
  - england
  - 19 Aug 2005 at 17:50
- - 5
  - 1
  Reality Bites
  
  I felt it had a weak storyline, but had a good cast. I was disapointed with the end. It was one of those where you think 'that's it?'.
  
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- 10155
- - a customer
  - Yorkshire England
  - 11 Jul 2004 at 14:06
- - 2
  - 1
  Simply a classic of the 90's
  
  This has to be one of those classic movies of the 90's most everyone has seen it or at lest heard of it. The story is easy to follow and the actors now well... read more »
  
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- - Gladfan
  - 37 reviews
  - Manchester
  - 26 Jul 2005 at 23:11
- - 0
  - 0
  Yawn!!!
  
  Oh dear oh dear - this was in my 'recommendations' which i normally don't pay much attention to, but thought this might have the potential of being ... read more »
  
  Report this review
- 158247
- - a customer
  - Monmouth, UK
  - 07 Oct 2005 at 17:21
- - 0
  - 0
  I'm sure it was good at the time...
  
  But now it's just like an overwritten love story. Good parts and if you ignore hammy ryder, the rest are good actors... might as well watch it but don't... read more »
  
  Report this review
- 232406
- - a customer
  - london, England
  - 13 Apr 2006 at 10:01
- - 0
  - 0
  Curiosity or how to kill 90 minutes
  
  Just a curiosity, no more than that, to see Ben Stiller directing and acting on the same movie. Not really a comedy, I would say it is more a drama but not very... read more »
  
  Report this review
- 278388
- - Jorge Gomez
  - Manchester, England
  - 23 Aug 2006 at 10:33
- - 0
  - 0
  As good as it was all those years ago....
  
  I remember seeing this at the cinema many years ago and wanted to refresh my memory. I still found it enjoyable although Winona Ryder's character was just ... read more »
  
  Report this review
- 426542
- - a customer
  - Poole, Dorset
  - 03 Apr 2007 at 09:32
- - 0
  - 0
  "Laney, sex is the quickest way to ruin a friendship."
  
  After graduating from film school, a young girl finds herself attracting the attention of two guys who couldn't be more different - a cynical, suited studio... read more »
  
  Report this review
- 515567
- - nated23
  - 175 reviews
  - Birmingham
  - 20 Jan 2008 at 20:11
- - 0
  - 0
  reality bites
  
  U2's music has never been used to greater affect and film very funny not for the under thirty's.
  
  Report this review
- 558889
- - a customer
  - Swindon
  - 26 Apr 2008 at 10:42
- - 0
  - 0
  Not out of date
  
  A dated movie. Based in the post eighties crash, hopelessness and powerlessness grind down the spirit of the young and naive. Still topical.
  
  Report this review
- 749377
- - Goggs
  - 30 reviews
  - Edinburgh
  - 28 Apr 2009 at 15:55

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Critics' reviews
- Up-to-the-minute details of life among the recently 20, but so timely in its references it already seems old-fashioned; its love story is very familiar, though it may seem new to the recently adult.
- 32625
- - Halliwell's Film Guide
  - 02 Mar 2006 at 15:42
- Almost inevitably, as the first mainstream Hollywood movie to focus on post-college 'Generation X'-ers, actor Stiller's... read more on Time Out
- 45907
- - Time Out
  - 04 Nov 2008 at 00:16

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  Ben Stiller made his feature directing debut with Reality Bites, a fresh, irreverant romantic comedy about life and love for post-Baby-Boomers. It's graduation day, 1994, and Lelaina Pierce is taking her first, bold step into the final frontier - reality. Unfortunately, her future seems to have ...