--- product_id: 4912578 title: "Reality Bites [Blu-ray]" brand: "winona ryderethan hawke" price: "NZ$87" currency: NZD in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.nz/products/4912578-reality-bites-blu-ray store_origin: NZ region: New Zealand --- # Reality Bites [Blu-ray] **Brand:** winona ryderethan hawke **Price:** NZ$87 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Reality Bites [Blu-ray] by winona ryderethan hawke - **How much does it cost?** NZ$87 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.nz](https://www.desertcart.nz/products/4912578-reality-bites-blu-ray) ## Best For - winona ryderethan hawke enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted winona ryderethan hawke brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Reality Bites [Blu-ray] ## Images ![Reality Bites [Blu-ray] - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51jZsaeGBBL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ One of the Best Movies About Life After Graduating College and Disillusionment that Follows When you Face Reality *by L***L on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 22, 2010* "Reality Bites" is a movie that I found (and still find) to be very close to the real life experiences people who leave the safety of college face. If you are in your late 30s or early 40s and kinda settled in your ways and job, you probably won't get this movie anymore. You are too grown up and the issues these mid-20 something kids are facing will seem trivial and nonsensical to you. Heck, even the actors, in the movie's "special features" section - especially Steve Zahn and Ethan Hawke, as well as Ben Stiller - don't really get the characters they played 16 years ago anymore. They talk about how childish their struggles in retrospect seem to have been and how bratty and ungrateful they find their characters now that they themselves have reached their mid-late 30s, early 40s and apparently figured out what life is all about: "having a career or something..." I guess that's where the true tragedy lies: no longer being able to identify with your idealistic, hopeful, driven young self of the past anymore.This movie is about four friends who face life - Reality - right after college. Leleina's (Winon Ryder) speech at the beginning of the movie about what her generation is going to do with the damage they have inherited and a poignant "I dont know" as a response sum it up pretty well. She is the valedictorian of her college and an aspiring documentary film maker. She walks around with her camera filming her friends, asking them lots of personal and intimate questions about themselves and life in order to eventually create a documentary that will mean something. She wants to make a difference in the world and just like any hopeful college student, was imagining that she would "be somebody" after all the hard work she put in thus far. Little did she know that Reality just doesnt work that way. It's hard to be a saint in a paradise that is crumbling and when paying your rent takes precedence over making a meaningful difference in someone's, or even your own, life.She shares an apartment with her nerdy-hip friend Vicki Miner (Janeane Garofalo) who is a cynical yet at the same time strangely idealistic girl working at The Gap as a manager. Even though she is hip and goofy she is also lonely and feels like she is pursuing hollow ambitions. She graduated college, but the only thing she really seems to have remembered is her social security number, which she can recite to Leleina even when she is drunk and stoned at the same time. If you've gone to college in the 90s, you'll know that your social is just about the most important and over-used thing ever.Their gay friend Sam (Steve Zahn), who seems very tight with Vicki, has even less of a clue about what he wants to do with his life now that he graduated. He is shy and has not come out to his mother yet about being gay. He thinks he needs to have a career of some sort, but just like his counterparts, is floating adrift in a sea of cluelessness about not only who he is but also what is expected of him.And then finally there is Troy Dyer, brilliantly acted by Ethan Hawke. Troy is a rebel, the freethinker, the "what's-it-all-mean" guy. He is a philosophy major and was only a few units away from his BFA - and does not seem very interested in ever going back to finish up. He is superbly smart and could probably land a good paying job faster than any of his friends if he actually put some ambition and effort into it, but he doesnt want to. He is an artist and his music and philosophy mean a lot to him and he seems to have little use or respect for the establishment. His music and his philosophy mean so much to him that he is not willing to just give it all up so he can get that "toehold in the burger industry". His father is dying of cancer and he doesnt want to give up the one thing that means something to him and then end up like him, with tumors growing in his groin. He is madly and secretly in love with Lelaina and because that is the only non-cynical emotion he has, he has a hard time telling her to her face how he feels about her or even fully commit. He dates a lot of faceless girls whose names he often doesnt remember and whose phone numbers he can memorex even less.Troy is the most interesting and intriguing character in this movie as he just symbolizes the struggle his generation is facing so poignantly and realistically. The philosopher and artist inside him refuses to sell out for a steady paycheck and an equally meaningless and meager profession that will catapult his life into a boring, meaningless and existential rut. He takes pleasure in the details, like "quarter pounders with cheese, the sky about ten minutes before it starts to rain, the moment your laughter becomes a cackle..." and all he and Leleina apparently need are 5 bucks, a coffee and good conversation. He steals a Snickers from the gas station he works at, stating that the establishment "owed him Snickers" and gets fired. When he moves in with Leilana and Vicky, Vicky says that it is only temporary until "he can afford his own place". Lelaina responds that this was the American dream of the 90s and could take years. Indeed. Even in the 2010s, if you can afford your own place by the time you are 35, you are lucky. The Dream never seems to end for Americans.The diametrical opposite to Troy is Michael Grates (Ben Stiller). He is a bit older, a few years out of college and pretty much grounded in reality. He takes an interest in Leleina after he runs into her car by accident and has her come to his office only to find out that she is broke and cannot afford a law suit. When he first comes over to the "maxi pad" (as Vicky calls their apartment), Troy mistakes him for a "collection agent". Michael is precisely what Troy does not want to be: he wears a suit, he has a boring corporate job selling out, a steady income; in a way he has "conformed" to the system and he has learned to walk the line of adulthood and idealism: he is a grown-up who has learned that sometimes you gotta wrap the meatloaf in attractive wrapping (i.e. make concessions) to sell it. Troy of course thinks he's the reason Cliff's notes were invented.This is a great movie that captures the Zeitgeist of Generation X pretty accurately. I cannot describe the so many ways in which the struggles these college graduates go through truly resembles the reality for many people in their age and place. I've lived nearly every moment and spoken nearly every dialog said in this movie in my own life. They are overeducated and underpaid and, literally, from one day to the other, have to come to terms with the fact that all the hard work they put into their education and idealism is not going to become a reality - at least not anytime soon and definitely not the way they imagined it would. Troy resists this disillusionment as much as he can - which is what makes him so appealing as a character: he represents the "I wont surrender" scream we all wished we had yelled out at some point in our lives to declare our independence. But we all know that - as if he was trapped in quicksand - Troy will be sucked into accepting this biting Reality at some point in his life as well because it will sneak up on you. Let's just hope he does not end up like his father. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ One of my favorite movies *by S***N on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 21, 2023* Just love this movie ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 16 and Life *by A***K on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 5, 2013* Hey It's The Sunnydale Chick, and I had just bought several movies (and the show My so called life) That helped remind me of High school).....cause unlike some.....I ACTUALLY did fall in love with my Best Friend who proposed to me In High school...and this is for him specifically......although my friends know about our love story 2......and I wanted to say Yes that's also why I love these kind of movies and Tv shows and such....Including Buffy for characters like Faith....and Angel for characters like Conner....one's who don't REALLY think they have a place cause they aren't like everyone else, but turns out they HAD a place all along......it was just with a different crowd.....and that's what me and my guy have ALWAYS had ......we'd skip school, and lived together (yes even then) and it was REALLY great until this one day when I had to move away, and when THAT happened......we spent the whole day together......wanting SO BADLY to run away together (like at the end of Ameican Beauty which is why I bought that movie as well.....and we even wrote a song called 16 and life based on how we fell in love in High school (from The Skid Row song 18 and life) and that's our main song now. That was a pretty rough day.....but after we always knew we'd get back together and we did.....and were Very happy together......and that's my Love story I promised I'd tell; but if you're wondering about Corey Feldman and some of you could be.....if you've seen Lost Boys 3.....Well that's what my Bad Boy's like. A Senior in High school when I was a Junior.....and he's also like Troy.....and still 2 this day(just like our friends and the other students all thought....we are still together.....and we've never been happier.....So what I wanted to add to that.....was if you fall in love in High school GO FOR IT......cause you DON'T EVER want to miss that chance! --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.nz/products/4912578-reality-bites-blu-ray](https://www.desertcart.nz/products/4912578-reality-bites-blu-ray) --- *Product available on Desertcart New Zealand* *Store origin: NZ* *Last updated: 2026-04-23*