why the Gen X classic still stands up today
- Written by Adam Daniel, Associate Lecturer in Communications, Western Sydney University
Universal Pictures“I was really going to be something by the age of 23,” says Lelaina Pierce, played by the radiant Winona Ryder in the 1994 Gen X classic Reality Bites.
She was voicing an anxiety many would say was born in the post-boomer demographic of the film’s disenfranchised central characters – but it is still a...





