Reality Bites

Year: 1994

Country: USA

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

Plot: 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.The movie follows Lelaina, an aspiring videographer working on a documentary called Reality Bites about the disenfranchised lives of her friends and roommates. 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.

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