Jeffrey Speicher is a Senior Features Writer and List Writer for Collider. He is a screenwriter as well as a film and television buff. He lives in Dallas, Texas, but can't stand the Cowboys. His crime novel, "The Snitch" is available on Amazon.
Reality Bites was Ben Stiller's directorial debut, and you can tell he was heavily influenced by Richard Linklater's epic 1990 indie classic Slacker. Starring Ethan Hawke and Winona Ryder, the Texas-based film has many of the same trademarks of the laissez-faire cultural attitude of what would become known as Generation X.
'Reality Bites' Is a Romantic Comedy That Nails the '90s and Gen-X Certain markers have to be part of a generational-defining movie. Because Reality Bites is synonymous with Gen-X and the 90s, those things include vintage clothing, oily hair that looks like you just rolled out of bed, phone booths, the fear of testing positive for HIV/AIDS, and 1-900 numbers in an era before cell phones.
'Reality Bites' Was Cinema Catching Up With a Cultural Change Already Underway Reaganism and conservative traditionalism were waning in the early to mid-1990s. Reality Bites reflected how the newest generation of college graduates and twenty-somethings were moving away from the dominant culture of the 1980s and embracing a new outlook. Much of it started with the new sound coming out of Seattle.
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