1994 · comedy · drama · youth
Reality Bites
Directed by Ben Stiller1h 38m1994
A small circle of friends suffering from post-collegiate blues must confront the hard truth about life, love and the pursuit of gainful employment. As they struggle to map out survival guides for the future, the Gen-X quartet soon begins to realize that reality isn't all it's cracked up to be.
Our read: Reality Bites (1994) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded comedy · drama · youth entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, gentle comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- warm
- brisk
- gentle
- intimate
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