Directed by Ben Stiller and starring Winona Ryder and Ethan Hawke, the film 'occupies an oversized spot in the cultural memory of a certain era,' writes critic Sean Burns. It's back on the big screen as part of the Coolidge Corner Theatre's Cinema Jukebox series.
From left, Steve Zahn, Winona Ryder, Ethan Hawke and Janeane Garofalo in director Ben Stiller's 1994 film"Reality Bites." ” now is like looking at an awkward yearbook picture of yourself when you had your worst haircut. Sure, it’s kind of cute, but mostly embarrassing and probably better left on the shelf.
I was 19 years old when “Reality Bites” came out, and — after an advance campus screening — I found myself convinced that the film was “The Graduate” for our generation, dragging my parents along to see it a few weeks later so they could better understand the struggles faced by people my age trying to live authentically in a compromised world. They must have thought I was out of my mind.
Of course, it doesn’t help that Troy is an insufferable ass. Played too well by Hawke in a role that would stick to him like gum on the bottom of his shoe for the next decade or so, the stringy-haired pretentious guy with a goatee in a thrift store shirt became a generational archetype, one Hawke also embodied in ‘90s-set literary adaptations like Alfonso Cuarón’s “Great Expectations” and Michael Almereyda’s “” .
It might be impossible to explain the extent to which Winona Ryder was everything to us boys back then. I’d first fallen for her in the scandalous suicide comedy “Heathers,” which was technically released in 1988 but feels like the first of what we now think of as “a ‘90s movie” in its violent, ironic sensibility and postmodern upending of teensploitation tropes. A winsome waif who carried herself like a tomboy, Ryder was the goddaughter of LSD guru Timothy Leary and was friends with J.D.
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