Movie: Reality Bites (1994)

• Director: Ben Stiller
• Release Date: 18 February 1994 (USA)
• Run Time: 99 min
• Country: USA
• Genre: Comedy , Drama , Romance  
• MPAA: Rated PG-13 for some language, drug content and sensuality.

Tagline: A comedy about love in the '90s.

Trivia: The scene in which Michael and Lelaina discuss the Big Gulp on the back of Michael’s car was originally supposed to have the song “Beth” by ‘KISS’ playing. Ben Stiller couldn’t secure the rights to the song so they opted for “Baby I Love Your Way” by Peter Frampton instead. Peter Frampton was an upstairs neighbor of Ben Stiller during filming of the movie.
 

Goofs: Continuity: When Vicki and Lelaina return to their apartment after the car accident, when she’s walking up the steps Janeane Garofalo has sweat patches under her arm; when she gets inside they have disappeared.
 

“In this study of Generation X manners, Lelaina, the valedictorian of her college class, camcords her friends in a mock documentary of posteducation life. Troy is her best friend, a perpetually unemployed musical slacker. Vickie is a manager at the Gap who worries about the results of an AIDS test, while Sammy has problems grappling with his sexuality. When Lelaina meets Michael, an earnest video executive who takes her homemade video to his MTV-like station, she must decide what she values–the materialism of yuppie Michael or the philosophical musings of Troy. Written by Rick Gregory <rag.apa@email.apa.org>”