A poster I know very, very well and one that is so weird. I added “unspooled” into the word salad and it was so well hidden I didn’t want that to be the only place it was.
Paul and Amy revisit Reality Bites, Ben Stiller’s Gen-X touchstone that may or may not want to be one. They discuss the film’s scrappy origins from writer Helen Childress and star-producer Winona Ryder, unpack Ethan Hawke’s slacker allure and Ben Stiller as a yuppie, and debate whether Lelaina’s rebellion was righteous or just twenty-something self-sabotage.