Reality Bites Page #2

Synopsis: 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.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director(s): Ben Stiller
Production: MCA Universal Home Video
  1 win & 1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
6.6
Rotten Tomatoes:
66%
PG-13
Year:
1994
99 min
Website
1,401 Views


I'm on this show?

Mr. Gubler, when I prepare

your note cards...

you're supposed to get

your own espresso.

Didn't you get

my "espress yourself" memo?

I don't have time

for your little mind games.

I'd like to remind you...

that we're laying people

off around here.

I can find an intern who will do

your job for free like that.

SINGING:

I been locked out

I been locked in

But I always seem

to come back again

And the view, when I look

from my window...

Oh, that's a much better size.

That looks great.

That would go really well

with the EZ-Fits.

So... Oh, buttoning it up.

That's even better.

Yeah, roll 'em right up.

It's liberating, isn't it?

I bought

a toothbrush, some toothpaste

A flannel for my face

Pajamas, a hairbrush

new shoes, and a case

I said to my reflection

Let's get out of this place

Past the church and the steeple

The laundry on the hill

Murder, there's one committed

each 7 seconds.

Hello. I got cut off.

I'm sorry.

Tempted by the fruit of another

Waa waa

Hello? What?

Tempted, but the truth

is discovered

No, no, no.

Listen, he needs us, OK?

If he makes videos,

we show them, OK?

It's symbiotic. It's like

a "chicken or the egg?"

It's both of them

working together.

Yeah, uh-huh.

Well, let me tell you something.

No, no, no.

I'm not scared of...

Jesus!

Aah!

MAN ON TELEPHONE:

Michael, don't laugh at me.

What?

No, I'm in an accident.

I got in an accident.

Yeah, I'm fine.

No. I'll call you back,

all right?

I'm gonna call you...

When you said

you would sue...

Well, it's not

really my idea.

It's just I got my lawyer guy

telling me, you know...

something, like,

about my rates or...

Right. You mean, like sue

in a courtroom for money?

I don't even know...

because I've never really

done anything like this before.

I mean, do you have

a lawyer or something?

No, I don't have a lawyer.

I don't have a dentist.

I'm... You know, I make

four-hundred dollars a week.

What do you do?

Well, at the moment,

I'm working...

I'm sorry.

I just... I got to...

Hello.

Yeah. What is it?

You know, I don't care...

if she does twelve books

of herself naked, OK?

It doesn't...

That's Dr. Zaius

from "Planet of the Apes. "

Oh.

I'm sorry. No.

Someone else is in here.

Yeah? Well, let her

say that to me.

-No, don't do that.

-Oh, I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

No, no. You can...

That's all right...

I was... Go ahead.

You want to touch it?

It's all right.

Yeah. No, go ahead.

No, I was talking to...

Look, can I talk to you later?

Can we... When? OK. OK.

Um... OK.

Um... uh...

You know what?

Just forget it.

Really, just forget

the whole thing...

because it was probably

my fault anyway.

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Submitted on August 05, 2018

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