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Writer (WGA):
Helen Childress (written by)
Release Date:
18 February 1994 (USA)
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Tagline:
A comedy about love in the '90s.
Plot:
Generation X Graduates face life after college with a filmmaker looking for work and love in Houston. full summary | add synopsis
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Awards:
1 nomination
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(51 articles)
Ben Stiller taps into his inner slacker in 'Greenberg' trailer
(From EW.com - PopWatch. 23 November 2009, 5:28 PM, PST)
'New Moon': Which late night studio audience will behave the most inappropriately?
(From EW.com - PopWatch. 16 November 2009, 10:14 AM, PST)
(From EW.com - PopWatch. 23 November 2009, 5:28 PM, PST)
'New Moon': Which late night studio audience will behave the most inappropriately?
(From EW.com - PopWatch. 16 November 2009, 10:14 AM, PST)
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This is my life...
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Winona Ryder | ... | Lelaina Pierce |
 | Ethan Hawke | ... | Troy Dyer |
 | Janeane Garofalo | ... | Vickie Miner |
 | Steve Zahn | ... | Sammy Gray |
 | Ben Stiller | ... | Michael Grates |
 | Swoosie Kurtz | ... | Charlane McGregor |
 | Harry O'Reilly | ... | Wes McGregor |
| Susan Norfleet | ... | Helen Anne Pierce |
| Joe Don Baker | ... | Tom Pierce |
 | Renée Zellweger | ... | Tami (as Renee Zellweger) |
| James Rothenberg | ... | Rick |
 | John Mahoney | ... | Grant Gubler |
| Eric Morgan Stuart | ... | Damien (as Eric Stuart) |
| Barry Del Sherman | ... | Grant's Producer (as Barry Sherman) |
 | Chelsea Lagos | ... | Troy Groupie |
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Rated PG-13 for some language, drug content and sensuality.
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99 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Iceland:L |
South Korea:15 |
Argentina:13 |
Australia:M |
Finland:S |
Germany:12 |
Spain:13 |
Sweden:7 |
UK:12 |
USA:PG-13 |
Singapore:PG |
Canada:PG (Ontario)
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Ben Stiller was told he could include Lisa Loeb's "Stay" on the soundtrack only if he agreed to put "Baby, I Love Your Way" (remade by Big Mountain) on the soundtrack as well.
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Continuity: When the group is smoking pot with a pop can, there are two different cans used.
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Quotes:
Lelaina Pierce:
Are you religious?
Michael Grates: Um, uh, I guess, uh, I guess I'm, uh, a non-practicing Jew.
Lelaina Pierce: Hey, I'm a non-practicing virgin.
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Michael Grates: Um, uh, I guess, uh, I guess I'm, uh, a non-practicing Jew.
Lelaina Pierce: Hey, I'm a non-practicing virgin.
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in "Home Improvement: Reality Bytes (#3.24)" (1994)
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Soundtrack:
Spinning Around Over You
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This is a much better film than the consensus would have it. in fact, I would say it bids fair to become a classic (it certainly will serve cultural historians of the nineties well...) Compared to "Singles", a superficially similar film released a couple of years earlier, "Reality Bites" is so much more, well, biting... Not to say that I don't like Singles, it's cute, but the movie in question here is much more than that. I could really empathize with these characters, especially Rider's Lelaina Pierce. It's hard to hang on to ideals in the real world (guess that's why I'm back at university). The script is REALLY good, almost every line is funny or incisive or both. The acting is first-rate- so they're playing themselves, so what! Does that make it any less enjoyable? I don't think so... This is a superior romantic-comedy, set amongst the same noncomformist set that enlivened the screwball comedies of the thirties, and it works just as well...