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...about mother-son incest, it became a cult hit. His new film, Flirting with Disaster, establishes Russell as a unique comic voice. The movie boasts a name cast that includes Alda, Lily Tomlin and Mary Tyler Moore, as well as such Gen-X faves as Patricia Arquette and Ben Stiller. Oh, and dyed-in-the-wool George Segal fans will have a reason to go to the movies again...
Townsman of a stiller town...
...Molly's and Winona, judging from her flirtations with the Academy Awards, seems to be going place Molly never got to. Moreover, "St. Elmo's Fire" had exciting twists in its love plots, while the love plot of "Reality Bites is absolutely stock. From the moment you see Ben Stiller's Ken Olin hair and eager, money-making kind of mannerisms, you know that Winona will wind up with theother: the unshaven, moody "slacker" who can't keep a job even at a newsstand, can't graduate and sings the Violent Femmes' "Why Can't I Get Just One Fuck...
Given these sketchy outlines, Stiller and Garofalo do the best jobs at making truly hip and interesting pop culture references and fleshing their characters out into funny, believable people. Stiller's Michael could have easily been a weasel, but his technological ineptitude (he still doesn't quite have the knack of driving while talking on the cellular phone), his sense of humor, and the feeling that he really cares for Leleina, make him into a nice, normal...
...pretense to 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...