| | Reality Bites DVD (3 Customer Reviews)
| Category | Comedies DVDs, Friends Movies, Love Triangles Videos, Self-Discovery | | Starring | Winona Ryder, Ethan Hawke, Keith David, Ben Stiller, Janeane Garofalo, John Mahoney, Steve Zahn, Renee Zellweger, Joe Don Baker, Swoosie Kurtz, Andy Dick, Karen Duffy, Anne Meara, Pat Crawford Brown, Mick Lazinski, Amy Stiller, Bill Bolender, Helen Childress, Evan Dando, Marti Greene, Chelsea Lagos, Susan Norfleet, Harry O'Reilly, Jubal Palmer
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A Generation X college graduate films her friends' post-college lives. Stars Winona Ryder, Ethan Hawke, Ben Stiller. DVD special features include deleted scenes, commentary with Stiller, retrospective. 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. 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. Screenwriter Helen Childress was 23 years old at the time of writing.
Video sequences by James Jones.
Feature film directing debut for Ben Stiller.
Copyright 1994 Universal City Studios, Inc. Reality Bites Reviews: "...Genuinely smart and funny..."
-- Mark Sinker, Sight and Sound "...SLACKER without the slackness, intentionally commercial and breezily entertaining....A spectacular cast..."
-- Caryn James, New York Times "...Tenderly funny..." -- Rating: A
-- Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly "...A romantic comedy that is cheerful, edgy and alive..."
-- Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times "REALITY BITES is a touchstone for anyone just out of college and stuck with more ideals than job prospects..."
-- Tom Nawrocki, Rolling Stone Reality Bites | List Price | $9.99 (You save $3.44) | | Studio | Universal Studios Home Video | | Orig Year | 1993 | | DVD Encoding | Region 1 | | All Time Sales Rank |  10722  | | CD Universe Part number | 6709513 | | Catalog number | 61023827 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Jun 08, 2004 | | Rating | PG-13 (MPAA) | | Rating Reason | some language, drug content, and sensuality | | Running Time | 99 Minutes | | Additional Info | Widescreen; Anniversary Edition; Subtitled | | Movie Details | Color; Widescreen; Anniversary Edition; Subtitled; 10th Anniversary Edition Widescreen |
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Reality Bites Movie Review Average Rating: (4.7 out of 5 stars)   Delivery and Packaging Great
Thank you for the prompt delivery of the DVD I had ordered for a gift. There was no damage to packaging and was delivered in a prompt manner. The fee charged was very reasonable.
Submitted by mcl43050m (Westwood, NJ) 
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 Reality on screen!
Even if you are a slight bit curious in reality shows, this is where it began. You get intertwined with the characters as they try to find themselves and their place in the world. And not to mention it has a killer sound track.
Submitted by ginger (Belen, NM)
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A great timeless flick
This movie captures time&life perfectly like a snapshot. I love love love it!
Submitted by cool hand luke (50 eggs)
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This is one of the original "slacker/ generation x/ angst" films which does a wonderful job examining 4 friends, living together through circumstances of unemployment due to a bad economy, although they have recently graduated college. The main relationship between long friends Winona Ryder and Ethan Hawke is entangled when Ben Stiller (who also directed) becomes involved. This film, sometimes humorous, and poignant as well, is a great in-depth study of relationships, how the outside world affects them, and how these young people learn to mature emotionally through all this pressure. The soundtrack is very good and fitting to the scenarios as well. The term romantic/comedy has been used to describe this film, but the inter-relationships between these young people is very well explored throughout. I recommend many of the other films Winona Ryder has acted in as well. She is a wonderful actress. Ethan Hawke's performance is outstanding as well, as is Ben Stiller's.
Submitted by bbrad547 (Marlton, NJ, )
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Reality Bites DVD Region 1
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Additional Release Material:
Audio Commentary: Ben Stiller - Star, Helen Childress - Writer
Featurette:
1. Deleted Scenes with Introductions by Star Ben Stiller and Writer Helen Childress
2. Featurette with Cast Interviews
3. "Stay" by Lisa Loeb - Music Video
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