Word: ethane
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Tragically, this is not always the case. Some authors fail to impress in person. Others perform satisfactorily in this respect. The scrumptious Ethan Canin, for example, unfailingly attracts hordes of female fans to readings-a small fact which does not escape his publisher...
starring Winona Ryder, Ethan Hawke, and Ben Stiller...
Conveniently, each of the main characters embodies at least one pressing "issue." Vicki (Janeane Garofalo) works at the Gap and is scared that she has AIDS. Sammy is gay and about to come out to his mom. Troy (Ethan Hawke) is in an alternative band called Hey, That's My Bike. Michael is an ambivalent corporate climber. Leleina looks for a job at a fast-food restaurant after losing her internship at a moronic TV show. All the characters seem to have divorced parents and a deep emotional attachment to some aspect of pop culture...
...generational relevance aside, at its core, "Reality Bites" is basically a standard love triangle story, in which Leleina has to choose between the more stable Michael and the less stable Troy. It's kind of like "The Piano," except Ben Stiller is a lot funnier than Sam Neill and Ethan Hawke doesn't have any visible tattos...
...aimless activity and just plain lying around. The latter takes place in the "maxipad" Lelaina shares with Vickie (Janeane Garofalo), who sometimes imagines her own funeral as a scene from Melrose Place ("chokers and halter tops"), Sammy (Steve Zahn), who is gently receding into the wallpaper, and Troy (Ethan Hawke), who is a philosopher-couch potato, fired from his job as a newsstand clerk for eating a Snickers bar without authorization...